Forensic Science Commission Narrowing Its Jurisdiction?
A memo from the Texas Forensic Science Commission circulated in advance of tomorrow’s meeting indicates the agency may believe it has no authority to consider the Cameron Todd Willingham complaint.
The document interprets the Commission’s enacting statute as limiting its jurisdiction to laboratories accredited by the Department of Public Safety. That could prevent it from taking up Willingham's case, which hinges on allegedly faulty testimony of experts at trial, not analysis conducted in a laboratory. Willingham was convicted of the 1991 arson deaths of his daughters and was executed in 2004.
The memo is unsigned, though it ...
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Melody Simon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Reeks of a coverup. Perry's a murderer and should be hanged - like the kind of Texas justice he's so eager to dole out. Yeah that's incendiary, but this man gets away with murder, literally and is doing everything he can to cover it up. Can't hide that from your Maker, mr. Perry.