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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; arson</title>
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		<title>ARSON MURDER-TOO MANY MISTAKES DEMANDS SCRUTINY</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/08/17/arson-murder-too-many-mistakes-demands-scrutiny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flawed Forensics in Arson Cases: One Executed, One on Death Row, Four in Prison

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

The question hangs like ugly morning moss from a large swamp oak tree: Did the State of Texas execute an innocent man when it put Cameron Todd Willingham to death on February 17, 2004? Just last month the Texas Forensic Science Commission ruled that Willingham’s August 1992 murder conviction was based on flawed forensic evidence. The Willingham case—and the way it has been handled by state officials and in particular Tex. Gov. Rick Perry and especially by Willingham’s former defense attorney—has proven to be a national and international embarrassment to the state’s criminal justice system.]]></description>
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		<title>CAMERON TODD WILLINGHAM: IMPROPER OR WRONGFUL CONVICTION?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas Forensic Science Commission Concludes Flawed Science Used In Trial That Led To Conviction and Execution

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

It was December 1991 in Corsicana, Texas. Cameron Todd Willingham was alone in his residence with his three small children—Amber 2, and one-year-old twins, Karmon and Kameron. A fire broke out in the residence. Willingham managed to escape the fire. The three children did not, dying a horrible death trapped in the flames that quickly engulfed the residence. Willingham was immediately targeted as a suspect for arson murder. He was indicted on January 8, 1992. After turning down an opportunity to plead guilty for a life sentence, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in August 1992. He was executed on February 17, 2004, angrily telling all those present that he was an innocent man. The political and media fallout from Willingham’s execution began before his remains were laid to rest. The case’s controversial history can be found on Billy Sinclair’s blog here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. But essentially Willingham was convicted and executed because state officials involved in the case—and with a lot of help from the condemned inmate himself—successfully portrayed him as a “monster” throughout the trial and execution process. The basis for this portrait was:]]></description>
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		<title>TEXAS FORENSIC SCIENCE COMMISSION LACKS CREDIBILITY</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/11/29/texas-forensic-science-commission-lacks-credibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Legislature created the Forensic Science Commission (“FSC”) in 2005 to investigate what the Texas Monthly called “scientific negligence and misconduct.” The legislature acted following the February 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham and the October 2004 decision by Pecos County District Attorney Ori White to free Ernest Willis from capital murder charges. Willingham and Willis had both been convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for murders they allegedly committed by setting fires to dwellings in which five people were killed—two women in Willis’ case and Willingham’s three young daughters. The forensic arson evidence used to convict both men was virtually identical. In fact, as Michael Hall wrote recently in Texas Monthly, these two condemned men had a lot in common:]]></description>
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		<title>TEXAS ATTORNEY DISCREDITS SPIRIT OF LEGAL PROFESSION</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/10/30/texas-attorney-discredits-spirit-of-legal-profession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flagrant Exhibit of Unprofessionalism, Disloyalty to Executed Client Adds to Nationwide Scrutiny of Willingham Execution

By Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We’re not in the habit of criticizing fellow criminal defense attorneys, but, and unfortunately, we feel compelled to discuss the antics of Mr. David Martin, of Corsicana, Texas, recently displayed on nationwide television. Martin was Cameron Todd Willingham’s defense attorney during Willingham’s August 1992 capital murder trial. Willingham had been charged with intentionally setting fire to his Corsicana, Texas house in December 1991 which killed his three small children. Martin was appointed to defend Willingham who maintained from the outset that he was innocent of starting the fire that killed the three children.]]></description>
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		<title>TEXAS GOV RICK PERRY IMPEDES INQUIRY ABOUT WHETHER TEXAS EXECUTED AN INNOCENT MAN</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/10/05/texas-gov-rick-perry-impedes-inquiry-about-whether-texas-executed-an-innocent-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor’s abrupt Dismissal of Chairman, Two Members of Texas Forensic Science Commission on Eve of Hearing Smacks of Political Cover-up

By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

It is one thing for a governor to have possibly presided over the execution of an innocent man but quite another for that governor to effectively shut down an official investigation into whether the forensic evidence used convict the man was reliable.]]></description>
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