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In Re: Keller - Where Things Stand

By Steve Hall

Chuck Lindell has posted, "No answer to Judge Keller?s findings this week," at the Austin American-Statesman Focal Point blog.The deadline for responses to District Judge David Berchelmann Jr.?s findings in the Sharon Keller case, originally due Thursday, has been pushed back to Feb. 17.Prosecutors (known in this process as examiners) plan to raise objections to Berchelmann?s findings, which said Keller displayed poor judgment ? but should not be reprimanded or removed from office ? in handling a request to file an after-hours, execution-day appeal in 2007.Keller, presiding judge for the Court of Criminal Appeals, also plans to file a response with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. Both the examiners and Keller?s lawyer, Chip Babcock, requested the extension from the commission...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 04, 2010 (boomark / email).