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Rick Casey: Let?s give Judge Keller a free lawyer

By "Persian Cowboy"

The following is a great column by Rick Casey of the Houston Chronicle about Sharon Keller's request for the State of Texas to pay her legal fees.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 Texas Death Penalty Blog on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).