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Special Hearing Ordered in Keller Sanction

By Steve Hall

"Hearing set on Keller dismissal request," is the title of Chuck Lindell's post at the Austin American-Statesman.The special court of review next Monday will hear Judge Sharon Keller?s request to summarily dismiss a public reprimand from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. The hearing on Keller?s motion to dismiss will be at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Texas Supreme Court in downtown Austin. Each side will have up to 45 minutes to argue. The commission, which investigates allegations of judicial misconduct, ruled in July that Keller violated Court of Criminal Appeals procedures when she closed the court clerk?s office at 5 p.m., allowing rapist-murderer Michael Richard to be executed later that night without his final appeal being heard in court...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 14, 2010 (boomark / email).