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"Latest tale of Texas justice rated E for embarrassment," was the Austin American-Statesman's Friday editorial.Thanks to the Charles Dean Hood capital murder case, the Texas judicial system these days looks more like a Lifetime cable channel movie about the secret lives of people who wear dark suits and black robes ? with a lot of leg showing ? than a solemn institution trying to determine, fairly and objectively, guilt for a terrible crime. As Texans learned this week, the state district judge in Hood's 1990 trial at which he was found guilty and sentenced to die, Verla Sue Holland, was personally involved with his prosecutor, Tom O'Connell, who at the time was district attorney of Collin County. And:The Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday suddenly stepped in to stop the execution, but not because of the Holland-O'Connell relationship...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).