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CCA gets another chance to probe ethics of their former colleague in Charles Hood case

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals will get another chance to do the right thing and evaluate whether their former colleague Judge Verla Sue Holland's extramarital exploits tainted the 1990 Charles Hood capital murder trial. Hood's attorneys filed another habeas appeal yesterday, even though the CCA previously made it clear they had no intention of reviewing Judge Holland's alleged misconduct before Hood's execution.Since eight of the nine court members previously served on the bench with Judge Holland, their studied indifference to the now-admitted affair in this writer's view amounted to a stunning ethical lapse. Now, at least, the CCA will get a chance to partially, belatedly redeem itself.With the new filing, from the Dallas News ("Attorney General defends actions in investigation of affair between judge and DA," Sept...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).