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The Hood Case - Updated

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AP's Jim Vertuno writes, "Appeal based on rumors of affair between DA and trial judge," via the San Antonio Express-News.awyers for a convicted killer facing execution next week have filed an appeal asking the punishment be stopped, alleging a prosecutor at his trial and the presiding judge were engaged in a secret romantic relationship that violated legal ethics. Charles Dean Hood is set for lethal injection Tuesday for a double slaying in suburban Dallas 19 years ago. In an appeal filed Thursday with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and in the trial court in Collin County, Hood's lawyers said his conviction and death sentence should be voided. They accused now retired Judge Verla Sue Holland of being involved "in a long-term intimate relationship with the Collin County District Attorney, Tom O'Connell, who took an active role in the courtroom prosecuting Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 13, 2008 (boomark / email).