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Sex parte: Coverup of judicial tryst tests CCA's ethical mettle

March and April were both memorably bad months for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, with the Commission on Judicial Conduct initiating removal proceedings against Presiding Judge Sharon Keller followed by the House of Representatives considering a resolution to impeach her. Unfortunately, the month of May didn't start off any better for Texas' high criminal court.A state district judge ruled yesterday that death row inmate Charles Dean Hood did not wait too long to raise the issue that the judge and the prosecutor in his case were having an affair during his capital murder trial 19 years ago, setting the stage for the Court of Criminal Appeals to revisit misconduct allegations against one of its own former members. Judge Verla Sue Holland (pictured) was the trial judge in Hood's case and was later appointed to Texas' high criminal court where she served with 8 of the current members...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 02, 2009 (boomark / email).