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Forensic Science Commission Meets to Examine Arson Science

By Steve Hall

The Forensic Science Commission is meeting in Austin, today. "Forensic commission to hear from experts again in Willingham case," is the title of Chuck Lindell's report in today's Austin American-Statesman. The Texas Forensic Science Commission will hear from four fire investigation experts today as it continues to examine the science used to convict and execute Cameron Todd Willingham. The special meeting in Austin, postponed from November, was sought by the commission's scientists to help them answer two key questions: ? What was the state of fire science in 1991 and 1992, and what were fire investigators then expected to know? That's when two investigators used now-discredited techniques to conclude that Willingham intentionally set fire to his Corsicana home, killing his three young children...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 07, 2011 (boomark / email).