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16 Oct 2007, 9:00 am
Death penalty enthusiasts are chortling about Judge Sharon Keller's action in closing the courthouse doors to Mr. [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 10:05 am
Via Katy Derbyshire in love German books, a sad tale of how an Israeli translator of Harry Potter didn't even get a ticket to the press screening of the film, let alone recognition of the translation, which was used in the subtitles. [read post]
26 Mar 2017, 9:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Now we see a similar race between the Legislature with its big pretrial bills and a federal judge who seems exasperated these changes haven't been implemented already in the state's largest county.Formally, these two developments are unrelated. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 11:27 pm
  They noted in the article that complaints were filed by the Harris County Criminal Lawyers' Association and others. [read post]
14 Oct 2007, 1:40 am
With one complaint already filed by some of the state's most prominent lawyers, and another one being prepared by the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, this week's Grits reader poll asks, "Should Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller be sanctioned for refusing to accept a 20-minute late death penalty appeal without consulting her colleagues? [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 1:06 pm by The Recorder
(Pictured left to right: Braden Woods, Sharon Woo, Kamala Harris, David A. [read post]
20 Oct 2007, 3:56 am
I was prepared to believe she was technically in the right, but now I don't think so. [read post]
26 Apr 2009, 10:43 pm
I didn't think we'd see this during the 81st Texas Legislature, but the impeachment resolution for Presiding Judge Sharon Keller of the Court of Criminal Appeals will be heard this afternoon in the Texas House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Commitee. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 1:05 pm
"Appeals Judge Sharon Keller faces another challenge," is Dianne Jennings post on the Dallas Morning News crime blog.Challenges to Judge Sharon Keller on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals are mounting. [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 11:22 pm
Ever since Michael Richard was prematurely executed because Judge Sharon Keller refused to let her clerk stay open an extra 20 minutes, basically using a technicality to justify allowing the execution to go forward despite concerns stated by the US Supreme Court that very day, Justice Harry Blackmun's famous quote has been rattling around my head, searching for a place to land in a column, "From this day forward I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 3:57 am
  Specificaly, on Friday in this post, titled "Court of Criminal Appeals Workload Declining under Judge Sharon Keller," Grits documented a caseload decline in Texas's highest criminal court and suggested that "CCA judges just don't work as hard as they used to. [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 9:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Several posts from other Texas blogs related to topics sometimes discussed on Grits deserve readers' attention:Some Harris County grand juries runaway, some never leave the stationI haven't written much about the "runaway" grand jury in Harris County evaluating potential misconduct by the District Attorney, nor the apparent failure to timely empanel grand juries in the new year, mainly because the process is secret and at this distance I… [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 12:43 am
Ben Sargent's cartoon in Sunday's paper pretty much summed up Presiding Judge Sharon Keller's stated policy for accepting death penalty appeals at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, don't you think? [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 12:44 am
Here in Texas, the Dallas News editorialized that "It may be impossible to remove the stain that Sharon Keller ... has placed on the state's judiciary. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 9:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Remarkably, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller was fined $100,000 today by the Texas Ethics Commission. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 6:55 pm
Dan Harris, over at the China Law Blog,   has posted this week’s Blawg Review #162. [read post]