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More Rick Casey Commentary on Hood

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His latest Houston Chronicle column is, "Judge sat out an alleged lover's case."It's not as though Judge Verla Sue Holland never recused herself from a case involving her alleged ex-lover, former Collin County District Attorney Tom O'Connell. She did at least one time while sitting on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest court for criminal matters and the very court that is embroiled in the current controversy over the alleged relationship between the former judge and the former DA. Lawyers for convicted murderer Charles Dean Hood last week asked the Court of Criminal Appeals to stay his execution, which was to take place Tuesday evening. The defense attorneys had obtained an affidavit from a former prosecutor who worked in O'Connell's office at the time of Hood's 1990 trial stating that it was well known that O'Connell and Holland, who played a major role in the trial, were involved in a long-running romance at the time...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 20, 2008 (boomark / email).