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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsTexas Court: Conflict of Interest? What Conflict of Interest?
By Ed Brayton
We're all used to outrageous rulings from the Texas state courts, but this one may be appalling even by their standards. The state's Court of Criminal Appeals was presented with irrefutable evidence that the prosecutor and the judge in a case where a man was sentenced to death were having an affair that they covered up for years and years, and their response was basically, "Yeah? So what?"
Salon has the story:
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