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Andrew Cohen on the Plano HoodWink

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Cohen is a legal analyst for CBS New.  His commentary is, "Sex and Death in Texas."   Barring last-minute court intervention, the state of Texas is prepared Tuesday evening to execute Charles Dean Hood, who was convicted and sentenced to death nearly two decades ago by a judge who allegedly was sleeping with the prosecutor during the trial. If this jolts your conscience a bit - tell me, would you want to be a defendant in such circumstances? - consider the utter lack of curiosity and compassion with which the startling revelation has been met by the state courts in Texas. The Texas Court of Criminals Appeals, in three separate rulings Monday (which it requested not be made public), declared on procedural grounds that ?rumors? of an intra-court, intra-trial romance aren?t legally sufficient to warrant a 30-day reprieve from Hood?s execution in order to allow his lawyers to investigate the allegations...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 17, 2008 (boomark / email).