Sunday, January 30, 2011
Nothing quite like the state killing an innocent man
And if there's no evidence against you, that's just evidence that you're clearly a psychopath!
Oops. No need to confuse the case with facts, I suppose, it makes a better story in court if you just make things up that sorta kinda feel right.
Hurst was also struck by Vasquez’s claim that the Willingham blaze had “burned fast and hot” because of a liquid accelerant. The notion that a flammable or combustible liquid caused flames to reach higher temperatures had been repeated in court by arson sleuths for decades. Yet the theory was nonsense: experiments have proved that wood and gasoline-fuelled fires burn at essentially the same temperature.
Oops. No need to confuse the case with facts, I suppose, it makes a better story in court if you just make things up that sorta kinda feel right.
