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Sharon Keller Should Be Suspended from Office Pending the Outcome of the Formal Proceedings Against Her

By "Persian Cowboy"

Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, should be suspended from office pending the outcome of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct proceedings against her. She faces a public hearing on June 18, but she should be suspended before the hearing. If she is suspended, the hearing and formal proceedings would continue on schedule but she would be suspended from performing her duties as judge.Click here to sign a petition urging the State Commission on Judicial Conduct to recommend Sharon Keller be removed from office.She has already been fined $100,000 dollars by the Texas Ethics Commission for 13 violations equivalent to misdemeanors. She may have committed more violations but the statute of limitations has run on some of her past behavior...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on May 06, 2010 (boomark / email).