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Keller Motion to Reconsider - Additional Coverage

By Steve Hall

The Motion to Recosider, filed with the Court of Review, is available in Adobe .pdf format. "Execution 'ordeal' may not be over for Texas appeals judge," is the title of Peggy Fikac's report in today's Houston Chronicle. It looks like it is not quite over yet for Presiding Judge Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. A judicial panel this month tossed out a public warning issued against Keller by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. The commission acted after Keller refused to keep the court clerk's office open late to allow a condemned man, Michael Wayne Richard, to file a last-minute appeal of his 2007 execution. Keller's lawyer, Chip Babcock, said then that his client's "ordeal" was over...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).