Thus, Sedlacek, Cook, and Welbaum, the three examiners implicated
in the Caldwell case, were deemed incompetent, despite being IAIcertified.
349 In the Cowans case, Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas
Reilly, after failing to secure a criminal indictment for perjury against
LeBlanc, stated, “Science is not an issue in this case. What we know is that
there is right way to do this and the right way was not followed.”350
LeBlanc himself, said, curiously, “The system failed me. And the system
failed Cowans.”351
Regarding the Jackson case, Agent Meagher stated