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Why Sharon Keller Must Go: In Her Own Words

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller testified yesterday that she would do nothing different if presented again with the same situation that caused the Commission on Judicial Conduct to initiate removal proceedings against her.What arrogance! Knowing what she knows now, how can Keller claim with a straight face that the wiser path wouldn't have been to refer the decision on Michael Richard's appeal to Judge Cheryl Johnson, the "duty judge" who'd been pre-assigned to receive last-minute communication about the case?If that's really true, if she'd do nothing different after her actions have drawn down formal misconduct charges and made the court a national laughingstock, then that's exactly why the Commission on Judicial Conduct should recommend her removal from office...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 20, 2009 (boomark / email).