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Where's the reset button on this thing?

By Shawn Matlock

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Perhaps we have become accustomed to picking up the morning newspaper and reading another story of a wrongfully convicted person freed because DNA proved the person did not commit the crime in question. As a general rule, there is no question a crime was committed, but rather the issue is who was responsible for its commission. Until now.A recently-released report conducted for the Texas Forensic Science Commission, which investigated an alleged arson allegedly committed by Cameron Todd Willingham in Corsicana in 1991, pointedly states there was no crime at all.That's right, we are beyond the idea of convicting the wrong person for the crime. Now we have moved on to convicting innocent people for having committed no crime at all. Pretty impressive, huh?According to the report conducted by Craig Beyler of Hughes Associates, Inc, an international fire science firm, there was no evidence whatsoever to support the claim the fire was caused by arson, rather than an accident as Willingham claimed...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Matlock Blog on August 27, 2009 (boomark / email).