The State Judicial Commission has charged Judge Sharon Keller with failing to follow the court's execution-day procedures in the case of death-row inmate Michael Wayne Richard, and denying Richard access to open courts and the right to be heard.
Asked whether she would allow the court clerk's office to stay open past 5 p.m., as Richard's attorneys were having computer problems and might be late filing emergency paperwork, Keller refused to do so, according to the complaint filed against her by the judicial commission. Richard was executed that night.
In the case of the taking of a human life, something incredibly precious, even if it belongs to a criminal, there should be every measure taken to make sure it is the right thing. As one of the trial protestors signs stated "Justice Doesn't Close At 5"
Read More: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/17/texas.judge.misconduct/index.html
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