Appellate Practice
Expert Slams Court’s ‘Blame the Victim’ Response to Judge-Prosecutor Affair
Posted Nov 20, 2008, 03:03 pm CST
By Martha Neil
An appeals court in Texas has ordered attorneys for an inmate facing the death penalty to explain why they didn't complain sooner about a now-admitted affair between the judge and the prosecutor in the case, sparking an angry response from an incredulous legal ethics expert
News that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has ordered a hearing to determined whether appellate attorneys representing Charles Dean Hood violated the doctrine of laches by not acting quickly enough to pursue rumors of the then-alleged long-ago affair brought blistering comments from Lawrence Fox. A Philadelphia lawyer, he formerly served as chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
Although the prosecutor and judge in Hood's case had… Continue reading...
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