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CCA Follies: 'They who have put out the people?s eyes, reproach them of their blindness'

While I've been focused elsewhere, the notorious Charles Hood case - in which the DA and prosecutor admitted 18 years after the fact they were carrying on an affair prior to and during the defendants' capital murder trial - has taken a new, odd twist, with the Court of Criminal Appeals seemingly searching for any possible excuse not to delve too deeply into the extramarital indiscretions of their former colleague, Verla Sue Hollland. This effective AP account from Nov. 19 gives the latest details:Texas' highest criminal appeals court on Wednesday ordered a lower court to examine why a death row inmate's attorneys waited nearly 20 years before claiming a sexual affair between the trial judge and prosecutor tainted the case. Charles Dean Hood's appeal will be considered by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after the trial court hearing on the admitted affair...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 25, 2008 (boomark / email).