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Texas Defender Service on the Hood Ruling

By Steve Hall

Andrea Keilen, the Executive Director of Texas Defender Service, issued the following statement on the CCA's ruling in Ex Parte Hood, overturning Hood's Death Sentence."While today?s decision recognized a clear flaw in the punishment phase of Mr. Hood?s case, it should not distract the courts or the public from the more troubling issue at the center of this case: that the judge and prosecutor admitted under oath that they had a long-term, intimate sexual relationship prior to Mr. Hood?s trial, and that they intentionally kept this affair hidden for 20 years.  We, and dozens of legal ethicists and former judges and prosecutors, including former Texas Governor Mark White, former FBI Director William Sessions, and former Texas prosecutor Sam Millsap, are urging the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 25, 2010 (boomark / email).