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Forensics Panel Can Shed More Light in Willingham Case

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  LINK The interest of good science prevailed at the Texas Forensic Science Commission on Friday. That's good for the credibility of the state's criminal justice system.A majority of the commission's members said they want more information before drawing conclusions about the professional competence of fire investigators whose work led to the capital murder conviction and 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham of Corsicana.Now, commissioners plan to listen to live testimony in November from Texas Fire Marshal officials and specialists in arson investigation. And: One witness expected at the November meeting is Baltimore fire specialist Craig Beyler, whom the commission had hired to review investigation methods used to build criminal arson cases against Willingham and Ernest Ray Willis, the defendant in an earlier unrelated case that ultimately resulted in an exoneration...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 21, 2010 (boomark / email).