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Folly of Whole Keller Saga Is Off the Charts

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Austin American-Statesman.  LINK  It even features a chart. The sad story of the sad way in which Presiding Judge Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals handled or, more accurately, refused to handle an eleventh-hour filing on behalf of a man the state put to death now has a sad ending. Thirty-six pages into its opinion issued Monday, the special court of review that became the ultimate arbiter in this case concluded thusly: "In that we have reached our decision to dismiss by determining that the procedure employed by the (State Commission on Judicial Conduct) was erroneous, we express no opinion concerning the merits of the accusations against Judge Keller...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).