Human Rights Now! The Amnesty International Human Rights Blog Log - Courts Ignore Secret Affair in TX Death Penalty Case (Posted by: , April 20, 2010):
"In the context of the Troy Davis case, I’ve written quite a bit about how the US Supreme Court, so far, as avoided taking a definitive position on whether it’s constitutional to execute someone who can establish his innocence. Yesterday, the Supreme Court declined an opportunity to decide whether a sexual affair between a judge and prosecutor resulted in an unfair trial for the defendant.
"Both of these questions ought to be no-brainers. No, you should never execute people who have established their innocence; and yes, a judge-prosecutor romance should lead to a new trial for the defendant. But for Charles Dean Hood, whose case the high Court brushed off yesterday, no new trial will be forthcoming. He will remain on death row in Texas, awaiting a re-sentencing hearing on an unrelated issue..."
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"Supreme Court Denies Review in Texas Case Involving Judge's Affair With DA" [Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal, April 20, 2010]
