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Continuing Coverage of the Harris County Hearing

By Steve Hall

"Hearing on Texas death penalty stopped by court," is the AP report, via Google News. An unusual court hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty in Texas was put on hold Tuesday after the state's highest criminal court granted a request by prosecutors to stop it. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered that the hearing be temporarily halted so prosecutors and defense attorneys can file motions on whether the legal proceeding should be allowed to continue. The hearing, which began Monday and was set to last up to two weeks, had been ordered by a state district judge in Houston. And: Lawyers for the Houston man who had asked for the hearing had already presented two days of testimony on whether problems with such things as eyewitness identification and evidence offered by informants have created flaws in death penalty prosecutions in Texas and resulted in a risk that innocent people will be executed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 08, 2010 (boomark / email).