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Note to Florida: Texas high criminal court not a model that should be emulated

Most of the criticism of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals involves its spats with federal courts over the death penalty, its belated conversion to allowing innocence claims, and the troubles of its Presiding Judge Sharon "We Close At 5" Keller, who was assessed the largest ethics fine in state history for failing to disclose real estate she owned and corporate boards she sat on. But really, the reason the CCA most merits disapprobation isn't the public sins of its leader nor its institutional role as a Culture War flashpoint on the death penalty. It's that, day to day, the Texas CCA's notorious, virtually self-acknowledged pro-prosecution slant means Lady Justice decides cases with one eye peeking out from under her blindfold and her thumb on the scale...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 20, 2011 (boomark / email).