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Forensic Science Commission to review Willingham, Moon cases

If this blog were a paid gig, I'd be headed off to Houston to attend the Texas Forensic Science Commission meeting first thing tomorrow morning, but after hemming and hawing over the cost I think I have to pass. Looks like an interesting agenda, though (see the opening meetings page at the Texas Register).For starters, they're going to review the Cameron Willingham/Ernest Willis arson investigations and make decisions about next steps in the case. Those two men were convicted of arson based on identical (flawed) forensic testimony, but Willis was later exonerated while Willingham was sentenced to death and executed.They'll also review the Brandon Moon case and consider whether to post a contract to investigate it in the Texas Register. This is another instance of flawed forensics, this time out of El Paso involving the Lubbock division of DPS crime labs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 23, 2009 (boomark / email).