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Additional Coverage of the Hood Ruling

By Steve Hall

"Judge-Prosecutor Affair, but No New Trial in Texas Death Penalty Case," is James McKinley's report in today's New York Times. The highest criminal court in Texas ruled Wednesday that a man facing the death penalty for murder could not have a new trial despite a love affair between the prosecutor and the judge who tried his case. In a 6-to-3 decision, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said the convicted man, Charles D. Hood, should have raised in earlier appeals the argument that the love affair had tainted his trial. The affair had been rumored for years in Collin County, just north of Dallas, but was confirmed only a year ago when Mr. Hood?s lawyers compelled the judge, Verla Sue Holland, and the prosecutor, Thomas S...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 17, 2009 (boomark / email).