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The Charles Hood Case

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Charles Hood's case came to a near-boil in June when his June 17 scheduled execution was halted because the death warrant expired before TDCJ could carry out the lethal injunction.  It was the end of a night of frantic legal action. Today, Steven Kreytak reports, "Death row inmate's lawyers want depositions from judge, prosecutor," on the Austin American-Statesman's Austin Legal blog.Lawyers for Texas death row inmate Charles Dean Hood, scheduled for execution Sept. 10 despite allegations that the trial judge and prosecutor at his 1990 trial were involved in a secret intimate relationship, hope to secure direct evidence of the affair in a civil rights lawsuit. Hood?s lawyers said today that they will file a petition in a Collin County court at law asking to take the depositions of former state District Judge Vera Sue Holland and former Collin County District Attorney Tom O?Connell, who have refused to answer questions about any relationship they had in 1990...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 19, 2008 (boomark / email).