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Judge on Sharon Keller: Public humiliation is punishment enough

This just in, via AP:An embattled Texas judge who closed her court before a death-row inmate could file his final appeal should not lose her job or receive any further punishment beyond the "public humiliation" she has faced, a judge presiding over her ethics trial said in a report released Wednesday. Judge Sharon Keller still faces five judicial misconduct charges for refusing to keep her court open past 5 p.m., and the state commission that will ultimately decide Keller's fate is not bound by the recommendations in Wednesday's report. But the report makes it clear that Keller is not to blame for a twice-convicted killer being executed Sept. 25, 2007. "Although Judge Keller's conduct on that day was not exemplary, she did not engage in conduct so egregious that she should be removed from office," wrote state district Judge David Berchelmann, who oversaw Keller's ethics trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).