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Keller Case Needs Further Action

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in the Sunday edition of the San Antonio Express-News. The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct should be allowed to readdress the case of Presiding Judge Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The case against Keller was recently dismissed by a three-judge panel appointed by Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson after it found the commission erred. The panel found the commission was wrong in giving the judge a public warning instead of taking one of three specific actions allowed under the state Constitution. The special review court should allow the commission to revisit punishment for Keller. The 13-member judicial conduct commission spent a long time reviewing the Keller case, and the fact that it issued an improper punishment does not invalidate its findings in the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 08, 2010 (boomark / email).