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An Update on the FSC Meeting

By Steve Hall

"Texas panel to issue report on convicted arsonist who was executed," is the title of Michael Graczyk'sAP post, via the Houston Chronicle. A Texas commission looking into an arson investigation that led to the execution of the man convicted of starting the fatal fire decided Friday to move ahead with a report on the case even though its authority is not clear.The Texas Forensic Science Commission has been looking into the investigation of a 1991 house fire that killed three small children. The children's father, Cameron Todd Willingham, was convicted of setting the fire and executed in 2004. But the commission said it's not sure it has authority in cases that started before it was created in 2005 and has asked the Texas Attorney General's Office for advice on that matter...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).