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Blind Justice, or Blind Love?

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That's the title of Rick Casey's latest column in the Houston Chronicle.  LINKFather's Day may not be the best occasion to ask you to engage in this fantasy, but indulge me. Imagine that you recently went through a nasty divorce trial and it didn't go well. Your spouse got the kids, the house and half your salary for years to come. Now you learn that the judge who presided over the trial was sleeping with your spouse's attorney. Do you want a new trial with a different judge? Now, imagine it wasn't a divorce that was being tried, but a charge of capital murder. For most of us, that is harder to imagine. (Not for my mom. She used to say she never thought of divorcing my father. Murder, yes. But not divorce.)And:Houston attorney Lillian Hardwick, co-author of the "Handbook of Texas Lawyer & Judicial Ethics," has read Wiercioch's brief seeking a hearing and thinks it raises legitimate issues with "appropriate authorities and arguments...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).