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Additional Willingham News Coverage

By Steve Hall

"Are Fire Marshals Shirking Their Duty?," is Jordan Smith's article in the current issue of the Austin Chronicle. In court testimony last week, two nationally recognized fire-science experts roundly discredited evidence that sent Cameron Todd Willingham to the death chamber for the 1991 arson-murder of his three children in his Corsicana home. Florida-based expert John Lentini and Austin-based Gerald Hurst testified during a hearing before District Judge Charlie Baird that there's no proof the fire that killed the children was intentionally set. Further, both experts questioned why anyone would continue to defend the science that the state used to convict Willingham ? unless, of course, they are intent on ignoring the so-called "duty to correct," which compels scientists to admit when they've provided incorrect evidence or testimony in a criminal case...continue to full post

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