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A Texas Judge on Trial: Closed to a Death-Row Appeal?

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Hilary Hylton's report at Time.com, previewing the Judicial Conduct Commission's hearing next week on CCA Presiding Judge Sharon Keller.  LINK  Here's the opening:Soft-spoken and a devout Christian, Judge Sharon Keller presides as chief justice of Texas' highest criminal court. She's also known as "Sharon Killer" by her opponents, who are going to see her in court next week on charges of judicial misconduct. They charge that Keller refused a condemned man a last-minute appeal in 2007 and now she faces a trial in a San Antonio courtroom that could lead to her removal and will certainly focus wide attention on Texas' enthusiasm for the death penalty.Keller finds herself at this pass because of a four-word sentence she uttered on September 25, 2007: "We close at five...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).