Source: ABA Journal Top Stories
The top criminal appeals court judge in Texas was reprimanded today for refusing to accept a late appeal hours before an inmate was executed and hence failing in her duty to maintain open access to the courts. The Commission on Judicial Conduct found that Presiding Judge Sharon Keller of the state Court of Criminal Appeals engaged in “willful or persistent conduct that casts public discredit on the judiciary or the administration of justice” by neither instructing the court clerk to wait a short time for the appeal filing nor telling the clerk that another judge was assigned to handle last-minute…
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A ‘Disappointed & Shocked’ Top Judge is Reprimanded for Refusing Execution-Eve Appeal
July 18, 2010 Leave a Comment
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