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Dallas Morning News on the FSC

By Steve Hall

Today's Dallas Morning News carries the editorial, "Forensic panel should push in defining 'duty'," There appears to be little or no dissent among members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission that soon-to-be outdated science was used to build an arson-murder case that led to Cameron Todd Willingham's execution.The key decision for the commission now is how to formalize that conclusion. It should send the strongest message possible to forensic investigators about their duty to justice.The commission wisely decided last week to summon experts for face-to-face questioning on the state of arson science in 1992, when Willingham was convicted of setting the Corsicana fire that killed his three children.Members are interested not only in the standards at the time but also whether emerging science had escaped the notice of Willingham investigators...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).