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What's More Compromising Than Money?

By Steve Hall

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That's the title of an editorial in this morning's New York Times on the Charles Dean Hood case. LINK The Supreme Court abdicated its responsibility to address fundamental questions of ethics and fairness when it declined to review the case of Charles Dean Hood, an inmate on death row in Texas. The one-line order, issued without comment from any of the justices, left in place an egregiously tainted 1990 double-murder conviction. Eighteen years after Mr. Hood was sentenced to death, the state trial judge, Verla Sue Holland, and Tom O?Connell, then the Collin County district attorney, admitted that they had had a secret affair that appears to have ended not long before the trial. After considering these seamy circumstances, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals last year denied Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 28, 2010 (boomark / email).

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