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Reasonable Doubt

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Aaron Haas' latest Court of Public Opinion column in the San Antonio Current.  It's a must-read.  Here are extended excerpts:For the past month, the case of Sharon Keller has been the talk of the legal world in San Antonio, where District Judge David Berchelmann Jr. is preparing his findings of fact for the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, which will decide Judge Keller?s fate. Keller, you?ll recall, is the Texas Criminal Appeals Court judge who declined to let the clerk?s office stay open late September 25, 2007, preventing a last-minute appeal by lawyers for convicted death-row inmate Michael Richard. Richard was executed later that evening.While the immediate issue is the narrow question of whether Judge Keller should have let the clerk?s office remain open a little past 5, and perhaps the even narrower question of whether Keller should have told another judge of the request, the case has garnered so much attention at the local and national levels because most people recognize that this contretemps is a proxy for a much more profound issue...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 17, 2009 (boomark / email).