Perry “looked like a desperate man."

2:51 PM Fri, Oct 16, 2009
Rodger Jones/Editorial Writer

He looks like Tricky Rick. Rodger Jones said in his blog about Perry and the Willingham case. His decision to dismiss members of the forensics commission and set back the inquiry was wrong. He said that Perry “looked like a desperate man.” Rodger doesn’t think that Willingham was totally innocent, and that everyone should read both the Beyler report and the Corsicana fire chief's tough rebuttal, as requested by the forensics commission. Though part of Beyler‘s report says A finding of arson could not be sustained based on the standard of care expressed by NFP921 or the standard of care expressed by fire investigation texts and papers in the period 1980-92. Therefore he never says it was or was not arson. Jones’s intended audience is “anyone who's wasting time and polluting the internet by memorializing Willingham as though he weren't a bad guy.” Jones has a very strong option on this case. I think that I still need a lot more evidence onto what I think, or now I guess thought, about Willingham and I probably will never have a strong option on him. But I do think that Perry looked like a “Tricky Rick” in his decisions about this situation in a whole.

Editorial: Perry's certainty about execution ignores Science.

02:55 PM CDT on Friday, September 25, 2009

Lately, there have been a lot of problems forming with Governor Perry from things he has said to now his Actions. In the editorial that I chose the question is did Perry execute and innocent man? Perry so certain that Willingham was guilty he delivered his own guilty verdict with out bothering to wait for Forensic Science Commissions conclusions. Perry also states to the Dallas News that the evidence was “overwhelming” against Willingham. I would think that he would stop and think about it what he was saying. Especially, when the arson investigation was rebuked by a nationally respected fire engineer, I have absolutely no clue what Perry was thinking. In this case I do agree with this editorial. But I also don’t know what I would do if I was in Perry’s position I would have wanted a lot more evidence before I put my own accountability at stake and signed off on it and letting it happen. Now, with all that has happened I really don’t blame him for replacing the chairman of the Texas Forensic Science Commission and getting everything set before the case happens.