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Ask the experts: Judge Sharon Keller has to go

By Shawn Matlock

Here's an interesting twist in the ongoing saga of whether Presiding Judge Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.  It seems those that actually know legal ethics seem to think Judge Keller is, well, ethically challenged.  In a written declaration by some 24 experts on judicial ethics, Judge Keller is violated judicial ethics, including her obligation to provide litigants due process of law.  It seems the primary concern of the experts is Judge Keller's statements that she is a prosecution-oriented person.  It's hard to believe no one has ever complained like this about a sitting criminal appellate court judge openly stating she is pro-prosecution.  Could this set a precedent for other sitting judges who are openly pro-prosecution?Another source of contention with the experts is the judge's lying misrepresentations in her sworn answer to the formal proceedings in In Re:  Honorable Sharon Keller...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Matlock Blog on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).