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Sharon Keller Faces Disciplinary Panel Today

By Steve Hall

Today's Dallas Morning News reports, "Prosecutors will try today to reopen case against Judge Sharon Keller."  It's written by Christy Hoppe. Prosecutors at a hearing this morning will attempt to revive the case against Judge Sharon Keller, accused of closing the state's top criminal court as a death-row inmate's lawyers tried to file a last-minute appeal.The Commission on Judicial Conduct could take weeks or months to decide if Keller should be reprimanded, or even potentially removed from her seat as the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. And: Special Master David Berchelmann Jr. heard the case last fall and determined that Keller did not violate either rules or laws when she declined to accept the appeal after 5 p...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 18, 2010 (boomark / email).