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June Hearing Set in Keller Ethics Case

By Steve Hall

"Judge's conduct hearing set for June," is the title of Chuck Lindell's report in today's Austin American-Statesman. Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, will appear before the State Commission on Judicial Conduct at a June 18 hearing on charges that she neglected her duty in a 2007 death penalty case. The Austin hearing, announced Thursday, will be the final opportunity for Keller's lawyer and prosecutors to address the independent commission before it meets in private to consider Keller's fate. A decision is not expected that day. State law provides no deadline for a resolution. The hearing, which will be open to the public, is the next step in a process that began 14 months ago when the commission charged Keller with impropriety in the 2007 execution of Texas inmate Michael Richard...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 02, 2010 (boomark / email).