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Additional Coverage of the Hood Case

By Steve Hall

CBS News has posted the report, "Prosecutor-Judge Affair Not Enough to Reverse Capital Murder Conviction: U.S. Supreme Court," this morning.  It's by Carlin DeGuerin Miller.An admitted extramarital affair between the prosecutor and presiding judge in the 1990 capital murder trial of Charles Dean Hood does not merit overturning his conviction, the United States Supreme Court ruled Monday.In his Supreme Court appeal, Hood, who has been on death row in Texas for 20 years, sought an entirely new trial, based on the once-secret romantic relationship between his trial judge, Verla Sue Holland, and Tom O'Connell, the former district attorney in Collin County."We are disheartened [by the ruling]," said Andrea Keilen, director of the Texas Defender Service, a legal group representing Hood...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 21, 2010 (boomark / email).