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A Judge Who Should Hope for Mercy

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That's the title of Houston Chronicle columnist Rick Casey's latest.  LINKJudge Sharon Keller, who heads the state?s highest court on criminal matters, is in the dock facing charges that could lead to her removal from office. She should hope for more mercy than she has shown. This is a woman who voted to deny freedom to a man imprisoned for rape even after DNA evidence showed the sperm belonged to someone else. Her argument: He might have worn a condom. Later evidence provided proof of his innocence even she couldn?t explain away. This is a woman who, with her colleagues, appointed grossly incompetent lawyers to handle appeals for indigent death row inmates and then said, ?Sorry, your client had his chance,? when skilled lawyers later came in to try to clean up the messes...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).