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More Keller Commentary

By Steve Hall

Andrew Cohen writes, "The 'Killer' Keller Case: When Judges Go Bad," for the Atlantic's Correspondents blog.Having watched Spencer Tracy in Inherit The Wind Tuesday night, having therefore been sensitized again to the layers of injustice this country has so frequently tolerated from its "justice system," it was particularly disappointing to read just one evening later the disgracefully apologetic "findings of fact" issued Wednesday in the case of Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller.You remember Keller. She is the judge who told a capital defendant's lawyers trying to file an important brief on the eve of his execution, "We close at 5," before leaving early for the afternoon to go home to meet a repairman...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).