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Outrace of Plano HoodWink Continues

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In today's Chicago Tribune, Steve Mills reports, "Judge's romance cited in bid to halt execution."       In a highly unusual court filing, attorneys for a Texas Death Row inmate scheduled to be executed Tuesday are seeking a reprieve based on the claim that the judge and one of the prosecutors at the trial were having a romantic relationship as the trial was ongoing.Charles Hood was sentenced to death for the 1989 murders of Ronald Williamson, his boss, and Williamson's girlfriend, Tracie Wallace. They were shot in Williamson's home in Plano.But in court papers filed Thursday, and in a clemency petition filed with the office of Texas Gov. Rick Perry,  Hood's attorneys claim the trial was unfair because of the alleged affair...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 14, 2008 (boomark / email).