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21 Sep 2009, 8:51 am
Roach and Holland had overlapping terms as Collin County judges for 15 years, and for most of that time O'Connell was the county D.A. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 11:27 am by Troy P. Burleson
Many of you may be aware of the unfortunate ruling recently by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals regarding death row inmate Charles Dean Hood. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 11:27 am
Many of you may be aware of the unfortunate ruling recently by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals regarding death row inmate Charles Dean Hood. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 12:16 pm by Brian Evans
  The affair was first uncovered last June, two weeks before Hood’s scheduled execution, when a Collin County assistant district attorney revealed it in an affidavit. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 8:37 am
Wednesday's ruling contradicted findings by state District Judge Greg Brewer of Collin County, where Hood was prosecuted. [read post]
16 Sep 2009, 3:18 pm
His trial took place before the Honorable Verla Sue Holland of the 296th Judicial District Court of Collin County, Texas. [read post]
16 Sep 2009, 2:54 pm
"Texas appeals court won't rule whether judge-prosecutor affair tainted Collin County death penalty trial," is Diane Jennings' Dallas Morning News report. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 12:32 pm
None of the Texas advocates were aware of the meeting date or agenda.Only one Bell County pet owner who specifically requested of the County Commissioner's Office to be notified of any meeting discussing rabies was in attendance.Regarding the Bell County, TX, rabies situation, I attended the county commissioners workshop on the rabies issue Tuesday, June 23.=2 0There was the county judge and three commissioners (one commissioner absent), one… [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 9:29 am
Holland was re-sentenced to death in 1993 by a Harrison County jury. [read post]
6 May 2009, 10:25 am
The high court had already rebuffed the efforts of Hood's lawyers to determine the truth of persistent rumors that the judge who presided over Hood's trial was having a secret affair with the Collin County DA who helped try the case in her court. [read post]
4 May 2009, 10:30 am
" After serving on the Collin County bench, Holland sat as a judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals until 2001, Brewer notes. [read post]
4 May 2009, 12:17 am
National CBS News last evening covered the Charles Dean Hood case, in which a Collin County prosecutor and judge conducted a secret romantic affair during Hood's capital murder trial. [read post]
1 Jan 2009, 12:03 am
UTMB, which ran the hospital, laid off thousands of employees.DNA-based exonerations continue in Dallas and elsewhere, though the Innocence Project of Texas which provided attorneys in many of these cases was hit hard in the pocketbook by Wall Street fraud.Big cities going D: Harris County judicial races flip Democratic following a similar shift in Dallas County in 2006, which solidified this year with Sheriff Lupe Valdez's re-election.The order here is decidedly… [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 8:53 am
Charles Dean Hood's appeal will be considered by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after the trial court hearing on the admitted affair. [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 4:25 pm
Hood was sentenced to death in 1990.Judge Verla Sue Holland and District Attorney Thomas O'Connell both admitted being involved in an intimate relationship in separate depositions taken Sept. 8 in the Collin County District Court.Andrea Keilen, Texas Defender Service executive director, said this is another hurdle the Court of Criminal Appeals is imposing. [read post]
23 Oct 2008, 3:42 pm
The Hood County News noted the filing.A capital punishment specialist is seeking a stay of execution for Bobby Wayne Woods, scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday evening in Huntsville. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 3:34 pm
Hood's attorneys say prevented him from getting a fair trial in 1990. [read post]
28 Sep 2008, 8:33 am
"Others say it is a defense responsibility to raise issues about the validity of a conviction.Collin County Assistant District Attorney John Rolater says it is his duty to see "that justice is done," but the chief of the county's appellate division declined to comment on whether the county will proactively identify cases that might have been affected by the relationship between the judge and prosecutor. ...It's "uncharted territory,"… [read post]