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Keller rebuke raises questions, possible challenge

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Chuck Lindell's article in the Sunday edition of the Austin American-Statesman.  It's subtitled, "Lawyer says commission's public warning may be in violation of state constitution."  Here are two extended excerpts: Given three options for dealing with charges against Judge Sharon Keller exoneration, censure or removal from office the State Commission on Judicial Conduct threw proceedings into disarray July 16 by choosing a fourth path. For the first time in its 45-year history, commissioners with the investigative agency voted to issue a "public warning," which might sound like a censure but is not. Censures are meant to denounce a judge's "offending conduct." Warnings, a lighter punishment, are considered to be a remedial step to deter similar misconduct from judges, according to Supreme Court rules...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 26, 2010 (boomark / email).