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NYT: An Unfit Judge

By "Persian Cowboy"

That's the title of New York Times' Friday editorial calling for the removal of Judge Sharon Keller.Judge Sharon Keller, the Texas appellate court judge who closed the clerk?s office before a death row inmate could file a last-minute appeal, is fighting to keep her job. At a hearing on Wednesday, she said in a crowded courtroom that if she had it to do again, she would do the same thing. That testimony is further proof of why Judge Keller needs to be removed from the bench.On Sept. 25, 2007, Michael Richard?s lawyers called the court clerk?s office to say they were running late in delivering the papers for his appeal. The Supreme Court had unexpectedly issued an order in another death penalty case that they believed provided grounds for putting off his execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on August 22, 2009 (boomark / email).