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More Commentary on Hood Ruling

By Steve Hall

"Ruling in Hood case degrades court system," is the title of a Dallas Morning News.  Texas' highest criminal court's latest dismaying ruling in the scandalous Charles Dean Hood murder case can be interpreted with five words: "Anything goes in Texas justice."The ruling somehow manages to waltz past the fact that Collin County's trial judge in the capital murder case had been cavorting in bed with the district attorney. Instead, the split decision by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals turned on a procedural issue in letting the death penalty verdict stand against Hood. The clearly compromised impartiality of the trial judge, Verla Sue Holland, thus is rendered legally beside the point, in contravention of the Texas Constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 22, 2009 (boomark / email).