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In a highly unusual step, a u.s. district court judge orders the state of texas to either retry willis or dismiss his case. he cites several factors including ineffective assistance of counsel and evidence contradicting the state's theory of the fire. ori white heads up the investigation. white, a college student at the time of the crime, is now the pecos county district attorney. >> jurors want as much forensics in cases as they can get. and in this case, the forensics were such that it allowed the jury to reach that conclusion. >> now it's up to white and his team to decide if that jury reac...

Forensics, the forensics aspect of the arson investigation. >> to help him, white hires an austin-based arson specialist and retired chemist named gerald hurst. hurst starts his investigation by examining the state's strongest evidence, the so-called pour patterns. >> without those patterns on the floor, no case would have ever been developed. >> based on the new science, there is a different explanation for the patterns the investigators found. it is not arson. >> what occurred between 1987 when he was tried and convicted and 2004 was a development in the science of arson. where suddenly, the...