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'Killer' Keller Digs Herself Deeper

By "Persian Cowboy"

This week's issue of the Austin Chronicle has the following on the Sharon Keller's case,Nearly two dozen legal ethicists have signed on to a declaration filed Tuesday with the State Commission on Judicial Con­duct calling for the ouster of Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon "Killer" Keller. Keller will face a hearing this summer on charges of official misconduct in connection with her actions on Sept. 25, 2007, when she effectively blocked death row inmate Michael Richard from filing a final appeal. When Richard's lawyers asked if the court would remain open to accept a late filing, Keller infamously announced that the court closes at 5pm. Richard was subsequently executed. In their declaration, the ethicists ? most of them law professors from universities across the country ? cite statements Keller made on the campaign trail in 1994 about being "pro-prosecution" as evidence of her "manifest lack of impartiality...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).