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Texas judge faces public hearing for conduct over 2007 death-penalty appeal

By "Persian Cowboy"

That's Diane Jennings latest article at the Dallas Morning News. You can read the notice of formal proceedings here. The top judge of Texas' highest criminal court was told Thursday that she'll have to publicly defend her 2007 decision to close the court at 5 p.m. rather than allow a last-minute appeal in the case of a man executed later that night. Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, will have to justify her conduct ? and possibly fight for her job ? in a rare public hearing ordered by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. The commission ordered an inquiry into whether her behavior "constitutes incompetence in the performance of duties of office" and "casts public discredit on the judiciary...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).