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: StandDown Texas Project

News Coverage of the Charles Dean Hood Case

By Steve Hall

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"Supreme Court Denies Review in Texas Case Involving Judge's Affair With DA," is Tony Mauro's report for the National Law Journal.Without comment, the Supreme Court on Monday denied review in the case of Texas death row inmate Charles Dean Hood, whose trial judge Verla Sue Holland was in a romantic relationship with county district attorney Tom O'Connell, who was prosecuting him. The case drew worldwide attention, and his Supreme Court appeal was joined by former FBI director and judge William Sessions, former judges including Patricia Wald and John Gibbons, and ethicists and prosecutors nationwide, in amicus briefs filed by Arnold & Porter's Lisa Blatt and Andrew Pincus of Mayer Brown. Hood has been on death row since 1990 when he was convicted in a double murder...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 20, 2010 (boomark / email).

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