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Execution halted amid rumors of affair between judge, D.A.
McKINNEY, Texas (AP) -- A death row inmate whose lawyers argued a secret romantic relationship between the judge and prosecutor tainted his trial has won a reprieve -- but not because of the alleged affair...

Texas Civil Rights Project Calls for Hood Stay
TCRP director Jim Harrington issued a statement earlier today. "Texas has more than its share of questionable conduct in its appetite to sentence people to death, and this previously undisclosed intimate relationship between the trial judge and prosecutor drops to...

Double Murderer’s Appeal Puts Former Collin County Texas DA Tom O’Connell And Judge Verla Sue Holland In Bed Together
AUSTIN, TEXAS - An appeal filed Thursday claims Charles Dean Hood?s capital murder conviction should be overturned because the judge at his 1990 trial was involved in a secret intimate relationship with the prosecutor...

The Michael Toney Case
"Death row inmate may get new trial," is the AP report via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.Prosecutors and defense attorneys have filed documents asking for a new trial for death row inmate Michael Toney, saying the state's lead prosecutor improperly withheld...

News Coverage of the Hood Petition
Diane Jennings reports, "Death row inmate's lawyers request new trial, citing romance between judge and prosecutor." As expected, attorneys for death row inmate Charles Dean Hood filed a petition today seeking a new trial for the condemned killer, claiming his...

Nancy Rapaport on the Hood Case
The CCA's denial of a stay in the Charles Hood cased, based upon an secret, intimate relationship between the trial judge and prosecutor, has legal ethicists speaking out. Former University of Houston Law Dean Nancy Rapaport writes, "Outrageous! In what...

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Restraining Chair
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Inmate Medical Negligence
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Texas Employment Law
alleged violations of Texas labor laws including overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

Grave Desecration
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