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More Coverage - Arson, FSC, & John Bradley

By Steve Hall

Jordan Smith writes, "Who to Blame for Faulty Fire Science?," for the current Austin Chronicle, out today.Members of the state's Forensic Science Commission have concluded that fire investigators relied on flawed and outdated science when they fingered arson as the cause of the 1991 fire that destroyed Cameron Todd Willingham's home and killed his three young children. Still, members of the commission concluded that reliance on bad science did not mean the investigators were negligent. And:At the commission's July 23 meeting, Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck got into a heated exchange with Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley, who chairs the commission. Scheck protested that the commission should be focusing on whether the State Fire Marshal's Office had been negligent both in relying on science it knew was flawed and in not telling Willingham's prosecutors about the flawed techniques used to conclude that the fire at his home was arson...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 29, 2010 (boomark / email).