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"A faulty ethical compass makes Judge Sharon Keller unfit for the bench," is the editorial in today's Houston Chronicle.It was late afternoon, and a repairman was due at her house. This is what apparently was on the mind of Judge Sharon Keller, the state?s top criminal judge, on the 2007 day that murderer Michael Wayne Richard was slated to die. So shortly before 5, when Richard?s attorneys asked for an extra few minutes to file an appeal, Keller defied execution day procedure and refused. She told her clerk to say the court closed at 5. It is too late for rule of law to apply to Michael Wayne Richard. But it must be applied to Keller, whose deformed ethical compass makes her unfit to judge. If a new state probe of her conduct fails to prompt her removal, the Legislature should impeach her...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).