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Willingham, Cacy arson inquiries up ante on junk science debate

Travis County District Judge Charlie Baird, who presided over Timothy Cole's posthumous exoneration, has agreed to take up the Cameron Todd Willingham case upon request of Barry Scheck and the national Innocence Project out of New York. See coverage from the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the Houston Chronicle, and the Austin Statesman for the broad outlines of the story. Dave Montgomery from the Startlegram solicited this unbiased view from Williamson County DA John Bradley:"Judge Baird has been handpicked as a liberal judge who is willing to accept a case over which he has no jurisdiction to provide a well-timed political statement for anti-death penalty advocates," Bradley said in an e-mail. "This move by a liberal New York lawyer is consistent with his disregard for the rule of law and the disrespect he has shown for the rulings of numerous state and federal courts that have already reviewed the case and upheld the guilt of Willingham...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).