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Andrew Cohen on the Hood Ruling

By Steve Hall

Andrew Cohen has expressed his outrage over the Hood case previously.  His latest comentary on the CCA ruling is, "The State of Texas: Third World Justice," posted at the Atlantic Correspondents blog.It's been another extraordinarily bad stretch of days for those dwindling few lawyers, judges and politicians who stand ready still to publicly defend Texas's unjust, unkempt, and often unconscionable criminal justice system.Things are so bad in the Lonsestar State, in fact, that the same officials who doggedly continue to believe "Texas Justice" is anything but an oxymoron-- those who would rather pester their colleagues in Congress for a change in the BCS college football rankings-- perhaps better start preparing for Congressional hearings or even a visit from investigators working for the International Committee of the Red Cross...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 25, 2010 (boomark / email).