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Rick Casey on the Keller Sanction

By Steve Hall

His column in today's Houston Chronicle is titled, "With Keller, anatomy of a historic wrist slap."In what might be called a historic slap on the wrist, the Texas Commission of Judicial Conduct last week issued a strongly-worded ?condemnation? of the actions of the state?s top criminal appeals judge for effectively shutting the courthouse door to a last-minute appeal of a condemned man ? then warned her not to do it again. It could have been worse. During the closed-door session in which the 13-member commission debated what sanction it should give Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, one non-lawyer member of the commission opined that Keller should be commended for saving the state money by blocking the appeal...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).