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The Return of the Plano HoodWink

By Steve Hall

The Court of Criminal Appeals order is here.  A dissent by Judge Cochran, joined by Judges Price and Holcomb, is here."Texas appeals court won't rule whether judge-prosecutor affair tainted Collin County death penalty trial," is Diane Jennings' Dallas Morning News report. The question of whether a romantic relationship between a judge and prosecutor is unfair won't be decided by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The issue in the capital murder case of Charles Dean Hood roiled the legal community last summer, but the Court ruled Wednesday it would not consider the issue because defense attorneys did not raise it initially. Defense attorney David Dow called the decision by Texas' highest criminal court "gutless...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).