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Texas News Coverage of Keller Proceedings

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"Formal Proceedings Initiated Against CCA Presiding Judge Sharon Keller," is Mary Alice Robbins' report for Texas Lawyer.Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller faces a public hearing over what the State Commission on Judicial Conduct alleges was her decision not to keep the CCA open past its 5 p.m. closing time on Sept. 25, 2007, when attorneys for Michael Richard were trying to file a stay of execution and writ of prohibition to stop the state from executing him. The state executed Richard later that day. But according to a footnote in the judicial conduct commission's Notice of Formal Proceedings there is a dispute as to whether then-CCA general counsel Edward Marty told Keller that Richard's attorneys wanted the CCA to stay open late or whether Marty referred to the clerk's office, not the court, and asked Keller the specific question of whether the clerk's office stayed open past 5 p...continue to full post

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