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What can and should we take away from the "trial" of Texas Judge Sharon Keller?

By Douglas A. Berman

I have not closely followed the controversy surrounding Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller because I have never been confident that her actions on the day the Supreme Court granted cert in the Baze lethal injection case ? or the vocal complaints about her actions that day ? reflected anything more than the usual sturm und drang that surrounds the death penalty in Texas.  Nevertheless, the controversy rages on, as evidenced by this New York Times report on the start of Judge Keller's "trial" yesterday: The highest-ranking criminal judge in Texas, the woman who presides over the most active execution chamber in the country, sat at a defense table on Monday to face charges of intentionally denying a condemned man access to the legal system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).