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Additional News Coverage In RE: Keller

By Steve Hall

Yesterday's initial coverage is here; the Special Master's Findings, here.Houston Chronicle columnist Rick Casey writes, "Keller is lucky judge wasn't just like her."Sharon Keller, the controversial chief judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, has escaped yet another controversy. I'm confident more will come.Based on four days of testimony last August, San Antonio District Judge David Berchelmann filed a ?findings of fact? that was highly critical of Keller but wrote that she should not be removed from office or formally reprimanded for her unseemly behavior in a 2007 death penalty case.I have followed Keller for well more than a decade and have formed the opinion that she is a terrible judge. When she first ran to be the state's highest judge for criminal matters she described herself publicly as a ?pro-prosecution judge...continue to full post

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