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Judge Rules in Favor of Charles Dean Hood

By "Persian Cowboy"

District Court Judge Greg Brewer has ruled that death-row inmate Charles Dean Hood received an unfair trial due to the fact that the prosecutor of the case had a sexual relationship with the judge. Here is what CBS' Andrew Cohen had to say about the case.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.Goeller?s belated act of courage - he had known about the affair for decades before he went public with the information - has begun to force the state of Texas, grudgingly it seems, to do the right thing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on May 04, 2009 (boomark / email).