Objection overruled -- I'm sleeping with the prosecutor

Thomas Hood is on death row in Texas. He was convicted in 1990 of a double homicide.

I disapprove of and disagree with the death penalty but recognise if you have it, a double murder is a sensible place for its use.

But what has emerged now is the judge and prosecutor were having a secret affair during the trial.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals though (6 to 3) didn't see that as a conflict serious enough to allow the case to be reopened -- Mr Hood should have raised the (secret) affair more quickly and since he didn't, because he couldn't, he's out of luck.

Call me a bleeding heart, but I think if the judge and prosecutor are "in love" (as they said they were here) and sleeping together then there is a serious problem.
James Morton
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