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CCA Primary Race

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The Democratic and Republican party primaries in Texas is just over one month away -- Tuesday, March 4.  There is one contested race for the Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Dallas Morning News makes its choice in the editorial, "We recommend."The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals certainly gets a lot of press ? very little of it good. Texas Monthly calls it "Texas' Worst Court." The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned many of its rulings in death penalty cases. And last fall, the nine-member panel became a national scandal when inmate Michael Richard went to his execution because Presiding Judge Sharon Keller refused his rushed request for a stay, telling his lawyers the court's office closes at 5. Judge Robert Francis, a Coppell resident who has served on criminal district court in Dallas since 1997, says somebody on that panel ought to have been outraged enough to speak out and vow to reform the process...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 01, 2008 (boomark / email).