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MCKINNEY, Texas — A convicted killer won a reprieve Tuesday, one day before his scheduled execution, after an appeals court said it would reconsider its earlier dismissal of a challenge over jury instructions at his murder trial.
In granting the reprieve to Charles Dean Hood, the Texas Court of Appeals cited developments in the law regarding jury nullification.
The court dismissed his attorney’s claims that Hood was denied a fair trial because of an unethical relationship between the judge and prosecutor. Hood was convicted of killing a man and woman in Plano in 1989.
