Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would not hear the case of Charles Dean Hood, the former bouncer at a topless club who was convicted of killing his boss and his boss's girlfriend. Hood sought a new trial based on an affair between the judge and the prosecutor in his death penalty case. That means Hood's conviction will stand, though in late February, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted the Collin County man a new sentencing hearing to review his punishment.

The CCA decision came on the heels of Hood's Supreme Court appeal and ...

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