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Investigating Judge Keller

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That's the title of an editorial in today's New York Times. LINKSharon Keller, a Texas appellate court judge, made headlines in 2007 when she was reported to have ordered the court clerk?s office to close promptly at 5 p.m., preventing a death-row inmate from filing an emergency appeal. The inmate was executed. A Texas legislator is now trying to impeach Judge Keller for dereliction of duty in that case. A legislative inquiry is long overdue. On Sept. 25, 2007, lawyers for Michael Richard were at work on a motion to stay their client?s execution. Earlier that day, the United States Supreme Court announced that it would consider the constitutionality of lethal injection. The lawyers were seeking to have Mr. Richard?s execution, which was to be by lethal injection, put off until the Supreme Court issued its ruling...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).

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