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Sex Parte okay in Hood case, say courts

I've written before that that Charles Dean Hood capital murder case at times feels like an optical illusion by M.C. Escher, with more things wrong with the picture from each new angle one examines.Truly it must be one of the strangest legal journeys in Texas history. The judge and prosecutor have an affair either before or during Hood's trial (depending on which story you believe from whom), and continued to remain "close friends" who traveled together apart from their spouses for several years thereafter. But six of the nine members of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said that was no reason to stop an execution, which surely has nothing to do with the fact that the trial judge in question, Verla Sue Holland, was later elected to the CCA and served with 8 of the 9 sitting members...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 20, 2010 (boomark / email).