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When the Clock Strikes Five: Pregaming the Sharon Keller Trial

By Steve Hall

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That's the title of Ashby Jones' post at the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog. LINKIt?s hard for us not to be compelled by the Sharon Keller story. An impeachment trial for Keller, the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is slated to start on August 17. At issue: whether and to what degree Keller erred one day back in 2007 when she closed the courthouse doors at 5 p.m., barring a death-row inmate from filing an appeal. The defendant was executed later in the day. According to a recent story in the Austin American-Statesman, Keller and her lawyers have previewed what one of their arguments might be. Earlier coverage begins here.

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 05, 2009 (boomark / email).

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