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Iron-Fisted Judge Gains From Irony

By Steve Hall

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That's the title of Rick Casey's column in today's Houston Chronicle regarding the resolution of the Judicial Conduct Commission's case against Sharon Keller. LINK Need your daily irony supplement? How about this:A three-judge panel Monday overturned a sanction against Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller ? on a technicality.As the state's self-admitted "pro-prosecution" top judge on criminal matters, Keller has long provided another term for "technicalities" raised by defense attorneys when prosecutors or judges don't follow the rules.She calls them "harmless errors." And: The special panel assigned to hear Keller's appeal of the Judicial Conduct Commission's "warning" noted that it was not addressing the merits of the sanction...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 13, 2010 (boomark / email).

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