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Special Master Finds CCA Presiding Judge Sharon Keller Should Not Be Punished

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Mary Alice Robbins' report for Texas Lawyer.  LINKIn his long-awaited findings of fact, a San Antonio judge has concluded that Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller's conduct on the day the state executed Michael Richard "does not warrant removal from office or further reprimand beyond the public humiliation she has surely suffered." [See the Special Master's Findings of Fact here.]Judge David Berchelmann Jr. of the 37th District Court, who serves as special master for In Re: The Honorable Sharon Keller, issued his findings today. Berchelmann presided over the August 2009 hearing on the State Commission on Judicial Conduct's charges against Keller. The judicial conduct commission initiated formal proceedings against Keller in February 2009, stemming from allegations that she made a decision that the CCA clerk's office would not remain open past 5 p...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).