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Blog Buzz Over the Hood Case

By Steve Hall

Adam Liptak's Sidebar column on the Hood case struck a nerve in the blogosphere.  Michael Landauer posts, "Charles Dean Hood case a dark mark on Collin County justice," at the Dallas Morning News Death Penalty blog. Bill Baumbach, a blogger in Collin County, has a great post with all sorts of links about the Charles Dean Hood case. You remember, the one where the judge was sleeping with the prosecutor, but no one seems to think that's a problem. Bill's take:The O'Connell/Holland 'affair' was no small lapse in morals. The affair itself was merely tawdry, but the lies and deceit that followed were serious violations of ethics and cast grave doubt on the ability of the Collin County Criminal Justice system to actually dispense justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 24, 2010 (boomark / email).