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A Judicial Sex Scandal Post Mortem?

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That's the title of Rick Casey's latest column from the Sunday Houston Chronicle.  LINKWith convicted murderer Charles Dean Hood scheduled to be executed Sept. 10, a McKinney judge has ordered a hearing to determine whether the judge presiding over the trial and the district attorney who prosecuted the case can be put under oath to answer allegations that they were having an affair at the time of the trial. Date of the hearing: Sept. 12. Was this state District Judge Robert T. Dry's idea of gallows humor? Maybe, but it was also a perfectly legal response to a desperate, if quite creative, last-minute strategem by Hood's lawyers. On June 3, Hood's lawyers obtained a sworn statement from a lawyer who had worked in the Collin County district attorney's office at the time of the trial in 1990...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 02, 2008 (boomark / email).