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Delay in Willingham Case Is Unconscionable

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's San Antonio Express-News.  LINK The Texas Forensic Science Commission agreed to take up the Willingham case in 2007. It is precisely the kind of case the commission was created to address ? one in which professional negligence or misconduct may have led to forensic errors.But the commission, with plenty of manipulation by Gov. Rick Perry, has gone to ridiculous lengths to prolong a finding in the Willingham case. At its September meeting, the commission once again pushed back a discussion of forensic standards applicable to the case until November ? after the election.Underlying the faulty forensics is this question: Did Texas put an innocent man to death in 2004?Where the Forensic Science Commission has unconscionably dragged its feet in providing an answer, San Antonio attorney Gerald Goldstein has stepped in...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 01, 2010 (boomark / email).