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San Antonio Express-News: "Remove Sharon Keller from appeals court post"

By "Persian Cowboy"

San Antonio Express-News is the first paper to publish an opinion about case of Judge Sharon Keller after the special master and republican Judge David Berchelmann, Jr issued his findings. The key finding in State District Judge David Berchelmann's report on Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller is that she ?did not violate any written or unwritten rules or laws.? And in a very narrow technical sense, this finding is correct. Keller, the presiding judge on the state's highest criminal appeals court, faces five charges of judicial misconduct for her actions involving the last-minute appeal for death row inmate Michael Wayne Richard. On Sept. 25, 2007, the date scheduled for Richard's execution, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear a case to determine the constitutionality of lethal injection...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).