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Special Court of Review to Rule in Keller, Soon

By Steve Hall

"Panel to decide on Keller rebuke by Oct. 8," is the title of Chuck Lindell's report in today's Austin American-Statesman. A special court of review plans to decide by Oct. 8 whether to dismiss a judicial ethics panel's rebuke of Judge Sharon Keller or move forward with her appeal.Keller appeared before the special court's three-judge panel Monday to push for dismissal now, avoiding a three-day trial at the end of November over the rebuke from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.The commission, which investigates misconduct allegations against Texas judges, ruled in July that Keller violated her judicial duties by closing the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals at 5 p.m. despite knowing that lawyers wanted to file an appeal in an imminent execution in 2007...continue to full post

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