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Rick Casey on the Hood Case

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Houston Chronicle columnist Rick Casey writes, "Judge-DA sex tale gets weirder," in today's paper.When we last left the case of death row inmate Charles Dean Hood, a state district judge had ordered a hearing on whether to force the judge and district attorney in the case to give sworn testimony as to whether they were secretly lovers at the time of the trial. Collin County District Judge Robert Dry set the hearing for Sept. 12, two days after Hood was scheduled to get the needle. I guess you'd call that a Dry sense of humor. Since that time, a number of extraordinary things have happened.And:Texas came very close to becoming, once again, a source of national amazement. We very nearly executed a man, only to learn days later that his judge and prosecutor had been lovers...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).