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More on Tx CCA Judge Sharon Keller & Editorial Criticism

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I'll be catching up with some coverage from yesterday in this post, but let's start with editorials from Fort Worth and Lufkin.Today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram carries the editorial, "Who pays the legal fees for judges charged with ethical violations?"Keller?s answer to the commission?s complaint argues that she didn?t know the lawyers were delayed by computer problems but that, even so, they could have taken a hand-written motion directly to the duty judge after hours.Babcock said he?s willing to steeply discount his usual fee or work pro bono on the case. But he can?t do that. The last time he tried, after defending Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht in an ethics case, the Texas Ethics Commission interpreted the discount as a campaign contribution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).

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