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Rick Casey on Judge Sharon Keller's Right to Counsel

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His latest Houston Chronicle column is, "Let's give Judge Keller a free lawyer." Here's an extended excerpt:Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, says the State of Texas is violating her constitutional rights. We are not paying for an attorney to defend her against charges by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct. The Commission?s charges involve a controversy in which she allegedly rebuffed attempts by lawyers for a condemned man to file a last-minute appeal based on a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier on the day of his execution. Keller faces the equivalent of a trial that could result in her removal from the bench. In a response filed Tuesday, Keller says the charges ?are unconstitutional because (Keller) has been denied the right to counsel by the Texas and United States Constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).

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