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Editorial Response to the Keller Reprimand

By Steve Hall

Today's Dallas Morning News editorial is, "Keller rebuke was necessary."  The official warning to Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller last week was critical to restoring respect for the state's legal system. In deciding to rebuke Keller, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct went beyond recommendations from a special master who heard evidence in the case. "Public humiliation" was enough, the master had said in January, despite a finding that Keller's actions thwarting an 11th-hour death-penalty appeal were "not exemplary of a public servant." It's a relief that the Commission on Judicial Conduct concluded that humiliation indeed was not enough...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 20, 2010 (boomark / email).