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Official 'Oops' in the Willingham Case

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Dallas Morning News.  LINK The Texas Forensic Science Commission appears to be steering toward a vague zone in the Cameron Todd Willingham case, a direction that would fail to address exactly how wrong arson investigators may have been in making a case that sent him to the death chamber.Clarity, not obfuscation, is what the public deserves in this long-running legal drama. A four-person committee investigating the Willingham case offered draft recommendations last week that would absolve arson investigators of negligence because they used outmoded standards that were common at the time in Texas in probing the fire. Those state and local investigators, probing the 1991 house fire that killed Willingham's three daughters in Corsicana, concluded it was set...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 27, 2010 (boomark / email).