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Continued News Coverage of CCA Presiding Judge Keller

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Today's Austin American-Statesman carries the editorial, "Don't impeach Keller."As bad a job as Sharon Keller is doing as presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the Texas Legislature should not impeach and convict her to remove her from office. State Rep. Lon Burnam, a Fort Worth Democrat, is pushing to impeach Keller, who has been the presiding judge on the state's highest court for hearing appeals of criminal convictions since 2001 and on the court since 1995. Burnam's criticism is on target: He faults her generally for a pro-prosecution bias that goes out of its way to uphold convictions and in particular for her cruel shuttering of the courthouse door to a last-minute death penalty appeal in 2007 from inmate Michael Richard, who was executed that night...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).