Deuell Stalls Vote on Commission Chair Ouster

AUSTIN (AP) — A Texas Senate Republican leader who represents part of East Texas is stalling a vote to oust the chairman of the state Forensic Science Commission. That would allow Governor Rick Perry’s controversial choice to rule on a case that questions whether Texas executed a man based on faulty arson evidence. The panel is to consider its final report in the Cameron Todd Willingham case next week. GOP Sen. Bob Deuell, chairman of the nominations committee, told The Associated Press that he has been holding Williamson County prosecutor John Bradley’s doomed nomination without a Senate vote in part to allow him to preside over that meeting.