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Hood hearing canceled: Interpreting Judge Holland's recusals

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UPDATE: Charles Hood's attorneys won remand of the case back to state court. Judge Greg Brewer has granted Mr. Hood's Motion to Take Depositions and has ordered Mr. O'Connell to be deposed immediately. Judge Holland is scheduled for deposition on Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. The hearing scheduled today was canceled that would have decided whether Judge Verla Sue Holland and former Collin County DA Tom O'Connell must submit to depositions regarding an alleged affair nearly 20 years ago during Charles Hood's capital murder trial. The pair of alleged lovebirds at the last minute asked the matter to be moved to federal court, reports the Dallas Morning News on its website.Meanwhile, the Texas Defender Service today released significant circumstantial evidence that Judge Holland, once she ascended to the Court of Criminal Appeals, recused herself from Collin County cases 160 times more often than CCA judges from neighboring Dallas County...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 08, 2008 (boomark / email).

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