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Andrew Cohen on Judge Keller

By Steve Hall

"A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very-Bad Week in the Law," is Andrew Cohen's post at the Atlantic. Day after day, drip after drip, came bad tidings. That creaking sound you thought you heard Monday? It was the sound of a thousand honorable judges all over the country rolling over in their graves at the news that the Texas judicial system has officially whitewashed from the record the disgraceful conduct of Judge Sharon Keller. She's the jurist who inexcusably blew off a last-minute appeal from a condemned man--an appeal that would have stayed his execution but did not--because she had to meet her repairman at home. How Texas--and the state bar association--can countenance such conduct unbecoming a judge beggars belief...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 18, 2010 (boomark / email).