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Judge to High Court: Get Serious

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That's the title of Rick Casey's latest Houston Chronicle column.  It examines last week's ruling in the Charles Hood case.  LINK  Here's an extended excerpt:When the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals last November referred a thorny question in the case of convicted murderer Charles Dean Hood back down to a Plano district judge, the state?s highest criminal court gave more than a hint as to the answer it wanted. The high court had already rebuffed the efforts of Hood?s lawyers to determine the truth of persistent rumors that the judge who presided over Hood?s trial was having a secret affair with the Collin County DA who helped try the case in her court. The Court of Criminal Appeals had ruled that a sworn affidavit by a former assistant district attorney that the affair was ?common knowledge? at the time of the trial was not sufficient to require the now-retired judge and former district attorney to answer questions under oath about their relationship...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).