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Charles Dean Hood Did Not Receive a Fair Trial

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That's the bottom line of State District Judge Greg Brewer's Finding of Facts and Conclusions of Law in the case of Charles Dean Hood.  The review came in spite of the state's best attempt to cover up and bury a long-secret affair between Hood's trial judge and prosecutor.CBS News' analyst Andrew Cohen writes, "Not The End Of The Affair."The last time we checked in on law and justice in Collin County, Texas, Matthew Goeller had almost single-handedly stopped an execution less than two hours before it was scheduled to begin. The former assistant district attorney had sworn under oath in an affidavit that the trial judge in Charles Dean Hood?s capital murder case in 1990 had been having an illicit affair with the prosecutor in the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 04, 2009 (boomark / email).