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TCRP Files Grievance Against Sharon Keller

By Steve Hall

The grievance and the narrative explanation filed by the Texas Civil Rights Project are available in Adobe .pdf format. This morning's San Antonio Express-News reports, "Rights group wants judge?s law license yanked."  It's written by Guillermo Contreras. A civil rights group is asking the state to revoke the law license of a judge who has been a lightning rod in debates over the death penalty.The Austin-based Texas Civil Rights Project filed a grievance Wednesday with the State Bar of Texas against Justice Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, saying she is unfit to retain her license to practice law. Records show Keller has been licensed since graduating from SMU's law school in 1978...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 20, 2011 (boomark / email).