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Mission Impossible?

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Jordan Smith's look at the Court of Criminal Appeals and the upcoming general election in the current Austin Chronicle.  It's subtitled, "Hampton seeks to break GOP lock on Appeals court." Here's the thorny question facing local defense attorney Keith Hampton: What does it take to galvanize voters to elect a Democrat to the Republican-dominated Court of Criminal Appeals? The state's highest criminal court, which, among other things, reviews all death penalty cases, has been the sole domain of Republicans since the 1998 election, when the last Demo­crat on that bench ? current Travis County District Judge Charlie Baird ? was replaced during a continuing GOP surge led by top-of-the-ballot Gov...continue to full post

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