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Judge Keller Shouldn't Get a Pass

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Dallas Morning News.  LINKOn this we agree with a special master's finding on Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller: She could have and should have done more to make clear her court's willingness to receive last-minute pleas before a September 2007 execution. On this we disagree with the special master: that public humiliation Keller has endured since the celebrated fiasco is punishment enough. Yet that's what state District Judge David A. Berchelmann Jr. is recommending to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct ? essentially to let bygones be bygones, despite a royal screw-up. And: Said the special master's report: "Judge Keller certainly did not exhibit a model of open communication...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).