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Charles Dean Hood Case Returns to View

By Steve Hall

Diane Jennings reports, "Prominent attorneys seek Supreme Court review of Hood death penalty case," at the Dallas Morning Crime blog.  Here's her post: A former governor, a former district attorney, a former U.S. attorney from North Texas, and the former director of the FBI are among a group of 21 lawyers who have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a controversial Texas death penalty case.The group, which was organized by the Constitution Project, is asking the court to hear the case of Charles Dean Hood, who was sentenced to death for killing two people in Collin County in 1989. Hood's case has garnered national attention not for the horrific crime, but because the prosecutor in the case had an intimate relationoship with the judge...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 19, 2010 (boomark / email).