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More Woes for CCA Presiding Judge Keller

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"Judge Keller's disclosures omit nearly $2 million in real estate, public records show," is Steve McGonigle's report in today's Dallas Morning News.The presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, while seeking state aid to defend herself against ethics charges, failed to abide by legal requirements that she disclose nearly $2 million in real estate holdings, according to an analysis of public records by The Dallas Morning News. Sharon Keller has sought dismissal of the charges on grounds that it would be "financially ruinous" for her to pay private counsel to fight allegations brought by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct that she violated her duties in a death penalty appeal. Keller, the state's highest criminal court judge, faces possible removal from office if a special master agrees that she blocked a condemned inmate's last-minute effort to stop his execution in 2007 by refusing to extend the court's 5 p...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 30, 2009 (boomark / email).