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Editorial Boards Speak Out on Charles Dean Hood Case

By Steve Hall

Editorials appeared in three major Texas newspapers on Saturday morning; the Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the San Antonio Express-News.Let's begin with, "Three capital cases illustrate how tactics trump truth," for the Morning News.Convicted killer Charles Dean Hood is getting a new day in court, but not for all the right reasons. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted him a new sentencing hearing, but that's beside the point. The point is that Hood was convicted of murder in a scenario right out of Desperate Housewives. The Collin County judge who gazed out over the courtroom during the trial in 1990 would see a district attorney who had been in her bed. Their secret tryst ? even though they had broken it off by trial time ? represents such an obvious possibility of bias that any reasonable mind would tell the court to try the whole case again and keep it clean...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 01, 2010 (boomark / email).