This clip is long, but worth watching. Willingham never had a chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5cFKpjRnXEThis attorney is the most arrogant, ignorant SOB I have ever heard. He probably never put forth a real defense of his client at trial. He was probably handpicked as the defense attorney.
He no more understands those new reports he is reading than Perry does. He probably believes the world is flat.
"Me and Joe Dunn got us a piece of carpet and poured lighter fluid own it and burned it. It looked just like the carpet in the house." (paraphrasing)
God help us all.
Everyone involved in that case should be investigated closely.
While the science of arson was not very advanced when this happened, the people who investigated the fire were still not unbiased investigators. "Vasquez testified that of the 1,200 to 1,500 fires he had investigated, nearly all had been arson, and he had never been wrong." Never wrong?? That reeks of someone who fits the evidence to a foregone conclusion.
A groundbreaking document in fire investigation, the National Fire Protection Association's NFPA 921, was published on Feb. 10, 1992, less than two months after the fatal fire at the Willingham house.
Filled with the new revelations about fire science, NFPA 921 was developed by 30 fire experts, including Lentini and DeHaan, and was written as a guideline for fire investigators. It is considered the standard on fire investigation and is a key reference text for the Texas fire marshal's office. Some investigators, however, have refused to acknowledge it, preferring to stick to the old ways.
The scientific advances played a role in the exoneration of another Texas Death Row inmate, Ernest Willis, earlier this year.
http://www.truthinjustice.org/willingham.htmThis information was available at the time of Willingham's first trial.
Perry and everybody are now talking about all the crimes and bad actions Willingham committed months before the fire. They want people to think he should have been executed anyway because of those acts whether he started the fire or not.
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