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Keller Proceedings - News Previews

By Steve Hall

"Misconduct Trial Begins Today for Texas Judge Who Refused Late Capital Appeal" by Debra Cassens Weiss is in today's ABA Journal.The presiding judge of the highest criminal appeals court in Texas is expected to testify on her own behalf in a hearing that begins today. At issue is whether Judge Sharon Keller committed misconduct by refusing a late-filed capital appeal. Lawyers for death-row inmate Michael Richard had been scrambling to file an appeal on Sept. 25, 2007, because of a decision earlier in the day by the U.S. Supreme Court to accept a case challenging the constitutionality of a three-drug lethal injection cocktail. Keller told a court employee who called her at home about the request for a late appeal that the court closes at 5 p...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 17, 2009 (boomark / email).