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News Coverage of Keller Reprimand

By Steve Hall

The Commission's Findings, Conclusions and Order of Public Warning is here. "Texas Judge Reprimanded in Death Row Case," in the New York Times.A judicial panel on Friday reprimanded a Texas judge who declined to keep the courthouse open for a last-minute appeal from a death row inmate. Judge Sharon Keller, the state?s highest-ranking criminal judge, received a public warning from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for ?willful or persistent misconduct? that ?casts public discredit on the judiciary.?The AP report is, "Top Texas criminal judge warned but keeps job," via Google News.  It's by Paul Weber.The resolution to what became a three-year saga seemed to leave neither side satisfied. Keller sought nothing short of an exoneration, and her critics grumbled over the panel letting her off with a light rebuke...continue to full post

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