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My thanks to maligned Judge Keller

I'd like to express my gratitude to Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller.She has made Texas' supreme court for criminal matters into a better institution.Unfortunately, she didn't do it by bringing organizational skills to a court that must deal more than any other state court in the nation with the pressures of last-minute appeals in death penalty cases.But she did it.The firestorm of criticism that followed her decision not to keep the clerk's office open for a late filing, based on a U.S. Supreme Court decision from earlier in the day, of a man scheduled to be executed an hour after closing time, has produced some improvements.According to her own testimony and that of other court officials during this week's four-day trial, the court had a protocol for dealing with execution day filings, but it was something of a secret...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).