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Texas Tribune Interviews Sharon Keller

By Steve Hall

You can watch the interview at, "An Interview With Judge Sharon Keller," conducted by Morgan Smith. On Sept. 25, 2007, Sharon Keller allegedly spoke the words that launched a thousand editorials: "The court closes at 5 p.m." According to lawyers for Michael Richard, that's what the presiding judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals said when she denied their request to file a last-minute appeal of his death sentence on the night he was to be executed.Ever since, a glaring national spotlight has focused on the state's death row appeals process and, to a lesser extent, on its method of regulating judicial conduct. Earlier coverage begins with this post.

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 26, 2010 (boomark / email).