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Texas Civil Rights Project Calls for Hood Stay

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TCRP director Jim Harrington issued a statement earlier today."Texas has more than its share of questionable conduct in its appetite to sentence people to death, and this previously undisclosed intimate relationship between the trial judge and prosecutor drops to new depths," said TCRP Director Jim Harrington. "Not only did the judge and prosecutor not disclose this to the defense attorneys or the judge recuse herself, as the rules of professional conduct require, but they both deliberately hid this information. Their deception casts irrefutable doubt on the integrity of the trial. They preferred to hide their embarrassment and risk a man be sentenced to death. How could there possibly be a fair trial under those circumstances? It is grossly unconscionable to offer up a person?s life to protect a secret affair," said Harrington...continue to full post

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