STORY: "George Souliotes finds justice but must wait one more night before finding freedom," by Paul Bieber of "The Arson Project," published on July 3, 2013.
GIST: "What is certain is that Souliotes’ original conviction was based on indisputably unreliable fire pattern analysis straight out of the Todd Willingham playbook. In an exceptional example of how cognitive bias and poor forensic training can turn an amateurish fire investigation into a full fledged witch hunt, Modesto Fire Department investigators determined the fire to be arson based on “pour patterns”, deep charring and a fire which burned “abnormally hot”. That the house fire burned beyond flashover for nearly 15 minutes was never acknowledged as a likely cause for any of the burn indicators the fire investigators attributed to an ignitable liquid."
The entire story can be found at:
http://thearsonproject.wordpress.com/about/
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
Dear reader: Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog. We are following developments relating to this case;
I have added a search box for content in this blog which now encompasses several thousand posts. The search box is located near the bottom of the screen just above the list of links. I am confident that this powerful search tool provided by "Blogger" will help our readers and myself get more out of the site.
The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/topic/
Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.
Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com
Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog.
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