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Commission on Judicial Conduct Presses Prosecution of Sharon Keller

By Steve Hall

Special Counsel John McKetta has responed to the Special Master's Finding in In RE: Keller.  His Objections and Responses are in Adobe .pdf format. It calls upon the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, "...to determine such consequences to Judge Keller's conduct as the Commission finds to be supported by the finds and to be just." "Prosecutors: death row judge deserves punishment," is the title of the AP report by Paul Weber, via Google News. Prosecutors urged a state panel Wednesday to punish a Texas judge for refusing to keep her court open past 5 p.m. to hear a last-minute appeal by a death-row inmate, and to ignore a key report that says she had been humiliated enough. The state Commission on Judicial Conduct will decide whether to reprimand Judge Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, for refusing to accept the late appeal in September 2007 from a twice-convicted killer...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).