The Collin County Observer

Collin County Judiciary: For shame, for shame, for shame! Jesus will not know you when the time comes! What a betrayal of America! To get a MAN, we had to go outside of Collin County!

It is disturbing to me that we have another death case that involves controversy and question.

Michael Blair, Charles Dean Hood? I am left to question our judicial system in Collin County.

The article below is in today's Houston Chronicle. Read the rest of the article there. Collin County is the laughingstock of Texas and the world. We look like a bunch of inbred idiots who don't know right from wrong. With convicted murderer Charles Dean Hood scheduled to be executed Sept. 10, a McKinney judge has ordered a hearing to determine whether the judge presiding over the trial and the district attorney who prosecuted the case can be put under oath to answer allegations that they were having an affair at the time of the trial. Date of the hearing: Sept. 12. Was this state District Judge Robert T. Dry's idea of gallows humor? Maybe, but it was also a perfectly legal response to a desperate, if quite creative, last-minute strategem by Hood's lawyers. Was there an affair? On June 3, Hood's lawyers obtained a sworn statement from a lawyer who had worked in the Collin County district attorney's office at the time of the trial in 1990. The former assistant DA, Matthew Goeller, said it was "common knowledge in the district attorney's office" that DA Tom O'Connell and Judge Verla Sue Holland were involved in a long-running affair. The courts have clearly held that the constitutional right to due process includes a trial in which the judge is not, figuratively or literally, in bed with the prosecutor. With Hood at that time scheduled to die on June 16, Hood's lawyers appealed to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals — the state's highest court for criminal matters — asking that it give them time to determine whether Goeller's allegations were true.

When will the leadership of Collin County rise to the citizens we have here? We are a progressive and well educated people who are involved in an array of business dealings that have improved the lives of people in our county, state, and nation. Why can't we get elected officials who mirror the county instead of making us look like pure idiots? We are a county of almost 1 million and yet we are run like we are a county of 100.

What Are The Checks and Balances for Collin County Family Court?

Help is needed with an investigation on how Collin County Judges are ruling in family law cases. This is an example and certainly not the only one. This child has unquestionably been put in danger by an unbelievable ruling in Judge Robert Dry’s Court (199th District Court). What is happening in Collin County, mothers beware. I am often in the Collin County Courthouse for work and I listen in on cases. There is a movement against mothers. Judges are making rulings that are unbelievable. One example below:

For the past year a father has had temporary primary possession of 9 year old daughter because of a false affidavit he filed. The information he filed has long ago been disproved, but the mother is still working to regain primary custody of her daughter.

A month ago there were some very serious crimes committed in the father’s home. His older son, on 10 years probation for Manufacture and Delivery of Methamphetamine was arrested at the house for two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. His dogs had gotten out and two little girls in the neighborhood brought them back to the house. He shot out the window of the house at the two girls aged 8 & 11 When the police arrested him, they found drugs all around the house including the daughter’s bedroom, and her fathers. Her father (unemployed) went on the run with her. Her father did not call the school, after three weeks the school withdrew her because she was a presumed missing child. CPS has an open investigation opened by the police reports. The father has a history of Domestic Violence with the mother and the wife before her. He was only given supervised visits in his divorce in Minnesota. He chose to cut of contact with that child. He owes over 100K in back child support to 3 different women.

The mother was able to get a TRO on the father and a Writ of Attachment for her daughter. The Constables located the child and returned her to her mom. However, at a hearing a few days later the Judge returned the child to her father. The father disappeared again the same day. There is no reason that the girl could not have gone to her mother. Her mother has a safe and stable household with none of these conditions the father has and never has had. The mom has a long history as a loving nurturing mother, and can line people up to support this, teachers, psychologists and more. Mom is a former Kindergarten teacher, and half way through her Doctorate in Psychology.

How does a Judge return a child to a home with:
Drug dealer in house
Shootings from house at two little girls
Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (2 counts)
Open CPS investigation
Drugs all over house including child’s bedroom
Felon in Possession of a handgun
Father on the run with child
Child withdrawn from school, presumed missing
Child being secreted in hiding
Child not in school
Father with Domestic Violence history


Mom is desperately concerned for her daughter. She again does not know where she is. Her daughter is not in school and no one other than her father has access to her or knowledge of her whereabouts.

Is there any system of checks and balances in Texas Family Court? This is clearly a crisis situation and Mom needs help quickly in order to insure the child’s welfare.

Need some help. CPS took my two grandsons out of the home.
Daughter has done everything asked/ordered to do in order to get kids back.
Daughter was told they would probably be returned by June or July (2009).
Daughter received a letter from her court appointed atty. today, that state is wanting to terminate her rights.
Am at wit's end...someone please help!
This is the same thing the Nazi's did to the Jews! They took their children away from them!
How can our courts be allowing or worse, taking part in this?
Need Help!!!