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Will SCOTUS benchslap Texas CCA for tolerating judicial tryst?

The New York Times' Adam Liptak today reviewed the request by Charles Dean Hood for the US Supreme Court to decide whether Hood's due process rights were violated because the prosecutor and judge in his capital murder case engaged in a romantic affair. (The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals already signed off on the arrangement.) From his assessment of recent, thematically related cases before SCOTUS, it sounds as though Liptak thinks the high court may well take the case and side with the defendant: The Supreme Court has lately taken some interest in the integrity of the judicial system. Last year, it ruled that millions of dollars in campaign spending on behalf of a West Virginia judge was reason enough to require his disqualification from a case involving his supporter...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).