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Texas Innocence Group Fights Use of `Junk Science'

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Jeff Carlton's AP report, via the Houston Chronicle.  LINK A woman convicted of killing her uncle by dousing him with gasoline and setting him on fire asked the Texas Forensic Science Commission on Wednesday to determine whether a crime lab committed professional misconduct when it claimed to have found traces of gasoline on his clothes. The Innocence Project of Texas, as part of its campaign against what it calls "junk science," filed the complaint on behalf of Sonia Cacy, 63. She has been free on parole since 1998 after the forensic evidence used to convict her was widely discredited. John Bradley, the head of the science commission, said in an e-mail that "FSC policy is to avoid public discussion of pending complaints, especially those not yet reviewed or investigated...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 30, 2010 (boomark / email).