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

By "Persian Cowboy"

The following is Time Magazine's article on the upcoming trial of Judge Sharon "Killer" Keller in San Antonio. By Hilary Hylton / AustinSoft-spoken and a devout Christian, Judge Sharon Keller presides as chiefjustice 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 ofjudicial misconduct. They charge that Keller refused a condemned man alast-minute appeal in 2007 and now she faces a trial in a San Antoniocourtroom that could lead to her removal and will certainly focus wideattention on Texas' enthusiasm for the death penalty.Keller finds herself at this pass because of a four-word sentence she utteredon September 25, 2007: "We close at five." According to a newspaper interviewwith Keller in October 2007 and pretrial testimony last year, she said thosewords to Ed Marty, general counsel for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals(CCA)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).