A judge on Thursday moved a hearing date for a condemned inmate so that it's no longer scheduled for after his execution, giving his lawyers the chance to argue while he's still alive that the conviction was unfair because the judge was allegedly having an affair with a prosecutor.
State District Judge Greg Brewer moved the hearing date for Charles Dean Hood to Monday, two days before Hood is set to die for the 1989 slaying of a couple in Plano, near Dallas.
The decision reverses a that of another judge, Robert Dry, who had set a similar hearing for Sept. 12, two days after Hood's execution date.
The hearing will address arguments that Brewer's murder trial was unfair because of an alleged romantic relationship between the judge presiding over the trial, Verla Sue Holland, and former Collin County District Attorney Tom O'Connell.
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I do not know a thing about this case. However, I think setting a hearing two days after the man was to executed was bit off. What good the hearing will do for the man is up to the court there in Texas. Please tell me the first judge just can't read a calendar and was not petty, spiteful or any such as that.
I do not know a thing about this case. However, I think setting a hearing two days after the man was to executed was bit off. What good the hearing will do for the man is up to the court there in Texas. Please tell me the first judge just can't read a calendar and was not petty, spiteful or any such as that.
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