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Judge Keller Files Response - UPDATED

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Judge Keller's response can be viewed, in Adobe .pdf format, here.  The notice, or complaint,  from the  State Commission on Judicial Conduct is here.  Now for the news coverage.At Texas Lawyer, Mary Alice Robbins writes, "Keller Alleges She Has Been Denied Right to Counsel."But Keller, a CCA judge since 1994 and the court?s presiding judge since 2000, alleges in the March 24 answer she filed with the commission that Richard?s attorneys at the Texas Defender Service (TDS) did not need a computer to prepare and timely file a motion for stay after the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari in Baze v. Rees to determine whether the chemicals used in Kentucky?s lethal injection method of execution constituted cruel and unusual punishment ? an issue Richard sought to raise with the CCA...continue to full post

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