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Delay, delay, it's the word of the day: Bradley proffers excuses to put off investigating forensic errors

I attended a meeting Friday of the Texas Forensic Science Commission at which Chairman John Bradley continued his quest to delay the commission's work as long as possible, this time pushing in executive session to request an Attorney General opinion to decide whether they have authority to consider the Todd Willingham case. See MSM coverage:Austin StatesmanDallas NewsHouston ChronicleTexas TribuneThe commission retired to executive session immediately before the Willingham case was publicly discussed. When commissioners each silently reentered the room about an hour later, everyone looked tense and grumpy; I'd love to have been a fly on the wall. (OTOH, as fate would have it, I ended up sitting next to Judge Barbara Hervey from the Court of Criminal Appeals, so the delay gave us a welcome chance to chat...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).