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Editorials on Keller Complaint

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"Texas judge Keller should stand trial for rejecting an appeal filed after hours," is the Austin American-Statesman editorial from Sunday's edition.Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is scheduled to stand trial for her egregious decision to refuse an after-hours appeal from an inmate scheduled to die that evening. And rightly so. Keller's decision ? made by her alone ? was grossly insensitive, unjust and discredited her court in the eyes of the world. The inmate, Michael Richard, was executed Sept. 25, 2007, a few hours after Keller refused his appeal without informing the other judges, including the one assigned to Richard's case. Since then, there have been numerous calls for Keller to resign, and a resolution has been introduced in the state Legislature to start impeachment proceedings against her...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).