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Explosive Charges in Charles Dean Hood Case Backed Up

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For years there have been lingering questions about an improper relationship in the Charles Dean Hood trial.  Hood is scheduled to be executed next week, and a former prosecutor has stepped forward confirming rumors of an affair between the trial judge and the prosecutor at the time of Hood's trial.  The affidavit is here; the pleading, here. In today's New York Times, Adam Ellick reports, "Texas Inmate Says Judge and Prosecutor Had Affair ."Lawyers for a Texas inmate facing execution next week filed court papers on Thursday accusing the judge at his double-murder trial of having an affair with the prosecutor. The papers, filed in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, argue that the relationship between the judge, Verla Sue Holland, and the man who was district attorney of Collin County, Tom O?Connell, should nullify the conviction of the inmate, Charles Hood, in 1990...continue to full post

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