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Mark White on the Forensic Science Commission

By Steve Hall

The former Texas governor and attorney general wrote the OpEd, "Panel must clear the air in arson case investigation."  It appeared in the Friday edition of the Houston Chronicle, the day of the Commission's last meeting.  After years of delay, the Texas Forensic Science Commission has agreed to meet today to decide what, if anything, it will do about the Cameron Todd Willingham case and disturbing proof that flawed arson evidence was used by state officials for years. Willingham was convicted and executed on the theory that he murdered his three children by setting fire to his house. Yet the most critical evidence in the case ? the testimony of a deputy state fire marshal - has now been repeatedly discredited by the nation's most prominent fire scientists as founded on baseless, unreliable and unscientific myths...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 20, 2010 (boomark / email).