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Tarnished justice

Misconduct trial of Judge Keller depicts a court of confusion.Being Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller apparently means never having to say you're sorry, even if your actions have brought worldwide scorn upon the state's highest criminal court. At the core of a five-count complaint by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct is the charge that Keller violated established court procedure by refusing to keep the court clerk's office open past 5 p.m. on Sept. 25, 2007, to accept a last-minute stay of execution request by lawyers for death row inmate Michael Richard, a convicted rapist and murderer. As a result, he was executed as scheduled that evening in Huntsville.A four-day trial conducted in San Antonio by a special master, District Judge David Berchelmann Jr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on August 30, 2009 (boomark / email).