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A Closed Court - The Early Coverage

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As noted in an earlier post today, Chuck Lindell of the Austin American-Statesman broke the story of Judge Keller's order that the clerk's office should close at 5:00 pm on the day of the Richard execution.  That coverage is contained in "News Coverage of Chi Stay," on October 3, 2007, the morning after the CCA stayed the execution of Honduran citizen Heliberto Chi, because of the Supreme Court's pending review of lethal injection.  Here's an excerpt from Lindell's reporting:The Chi ruling came as new details emerged about the Texas court's refusal to stay open past 5 p.m. on Sept. 25 so lawyers could file an appeal on behalf of death row inmate Michael Richard. The Supreme Court had accepted the lethal injection case earlier that day, and Richard's lawyers argued that the extra time was needed to respond to the new circumstances and to address computer problems that delayed the printing of Richard's motion...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).