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Ford Competency Hearing in Bexar County

By Steve Hall

Today's San Antonio Express-News reports, "Death row convict's lawyers argue he's incompetent," by Guillermo Contreras. A man convicted of participating in a fatal robbery in Kerrville is arguing he is mentally incompetent to be put to death. At a hearing that began Tuesday, lawyers for Jeffrey Lee Wood, 36, tried to convince U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia that Wood is too delusional to understand why he is to die. Wood believes, among other things, that he is the victim of a Freemason conspiracy and that bribing the trial judge would have fixed his problems, court records show. In 1998, Wood was convicted and sentenced to die for the murder of store clerk Kris Keeran under Texas' ?law of parties,? which makes all who are involved in a felony, like robbery, subject to the death penalty if one of them commits murder in the course of it...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 17, 2010 (boomark / email).