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A Bloody Injustice

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Dave Mann's latest article on faulty forensics in the Texas Observer.  It's subtitled, "Warren Horinek was a vicious drunk with a history of threatening his wife. But his conviction for murdering her was based on junk science--like thousands of others."  Two brief excerpts from this must-read: From the start, Warren Horinek has claimed his wife shot herself. As the police investigation unfolded, the people normally responsible for sending a murderer to prison?the crime scene investigator, the police sergeant who oversaw the homicide investigation, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy, even the assistant district attorney initially assigned to prosecute the case?all came to believe that Horinek was telling the truth...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 24, 2010 (boomark / email).