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An unrepentant Judge Keller: I would do it again

By cdw

Tex Parte, the Texas Lawyer Magazine blog, hits a home run today in its coverage of the Judge Keller ethics hearing: Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, remains firm in her belief that she did nothing wrong on Sept. 25, 2007, when she told then-CCA general counsel Ed Marty, ?We close at 5.? The state executed convicted killer Michael Richard later that day, after Richard?s attorneys were unsuccessful in their efforts to file a writ of prohibition and stay of execution on his behalf. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct brought charges against Keller in connection with the events that occurred just hours before Richard?s execution. In the third day of Keller?s hearing on ethics charges, Mike McKetta, the judicial conduct commission?s special counsel for In Re: Honorable Sharon Keller, asked the state?s top criminal judge whether, given what she knows now and based on the same questions Marty had asked her in 2007, there is nothing she would do differently...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).