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Texas Supreme Court Upholds Keller Reprimand

By Steve Hall

"Judge's reprimand in death penalty case stands," is Michael Graczyk's AP filing, via Google News. The Texas Supreme Court refused Monday to overturn a judicial conduct panel's reprimand of the state's highest criminal court judge for her handling of an execution-day appeal.Judge Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, had appealed the "public warning" the State Commission on Judicial Conduct gave her July 16. The warning was one of the least severe sanctions that panel could have imposed, but Keller's lawyer claimed the Texas Constitution didn't allow such a warning.The Supreme Court disagreed.The brief order from the court in Austin indicated only that Keller's petitions in the case were denied and Justice Nathan Hecht did not participate in the ruling...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 16, 2010 (boomark / email).