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Courts won't examine alleged judicial and prosecutor misconduct in Charles Hood capital murder case

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The execution for Charles Hood has been re-scheduled for September, but there's still little indication that the courts will look into allegations of serious judicial and prosecutorial misconduct before he's executed. The prosecutor and the judge in this case allegedly were having an affair during his capital murder trial. Reported AP:Hood's attorneys contend his trial judge and one of the prosecutors in the case were involved in an improper and legally unethical romance at the time that tainted Hood's trial in 1990. Retired Judge Verla Sue Holland and then-Collin County District Attorney Tom O'Connell have declined to address the allegations. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest criminal court and where Holland was a judge in the mid-1990s, rejected Hood's efforts to appeal on the grounds of the alleged relationship, citing procedural reasons for the rejection but not addressing the merits of the accusations...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 30, 2008 (boomark / email).