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Diane Jennings on the Charles Dean Hood Case

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Her report in today's Dallas Morning News is titled,"Texas death row inmate's defense hopes to prove romantic link between Collin County ex-prosecutor, retired judge." Rumors of an alleged affair between the judge and prosecutor in the trial of death row inmate Charles Dean Hood have created hand wringing among legal ethicists but have not derailed Mr. Hood's scheduled execution next month. So defense lawyers are trying an unusual tack: they've asked a Collin County court at law to subpoena retired Judge Verla Sue Holland and former district attorney Tom O'Connell Jr. as part of a possible civil rights lawsuit. The lawsuit that could result would be a claim "that Judge Holland or Tom O'Connell deprived Charles Hood of his constitutional rights by not revealing this romantic relationship prior to his capital murder trial," defense attorney Greg Wiercioch said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 20, 2008 (boomark / email).