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Judge Should Know Better

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Amarillo Globe-News.  LINKFor better or worse, citizens expect their judges to be completely above reproach. Perhaps the public expects too much of them, yet those are the expectations. A Texas criminal appellate judge, Sharon Keller, has been hit with a $100,000 fine over omissions on her personal financial statements. Judge Keller is vowing to appeal the fine. She ought to pay the fine and be done with it. The fine comes from the Texas Ethics Commission. Keller is no ordinary judge. She's the presiding judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest criminal appellate panel. Keller has blamed her father for making property purchases behind her back...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 07, 2010 (boomark / email).