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Relief denied in DA/Judge affair

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Wire accounts note: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a ruling today that convicted murderer Charles Dean Hood should have raised concerns about the affair between the now retired court officials in earlier appeals. The ruling overturned a lower court’s recommendation that Hood be able to argue for a new trial. Current Collin County prosecutor John Rolater called the ruling ?a significant success.? Hood’s attorney declined to comment. Hood won a reprieve last September, a day before his scheduled execution. He was convicted in the 1989 fatal shootings of a 26-year-old woman and her 46-year-old boyfriend in Plano. Opinion here

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).