Former TX Forensic Science Chair Bassett Weighs In

He's usually the one asking the questions. But John Bradley, the Williamson County District Attorney and the newly-appointed chairman of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, spent his morning answering a steady stream of queries from Texas lawmakers.

At issue, how to reform the previously obscure panel and when it will re-open the investigation into whether faulty science led to the arson conviction of Cameron Todd Willingham, a Corsicana man who was executed by the state in 2004.

"Will we proceed with the Willingham case? I think I've made it very clear in my statements that we will," Bradley ...

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