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20 Feb 2012, 10:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Miles' lawyers almost had to go that route because it's the main avenue the Sharon Keller Court and the Texas Legislature have left open, so byzantine and restrictive has modern Texas habeas law become. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 1:42 pm
"Twenty years after Michael Richard was convicted of raping and killing a Hockley mother of seven, his lawyers were scrambling to file an appeal with his execution only hours away. [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 11:58 pm
"And: Judge Keller hails from the Dallas family of Keller's Hamburgers fame. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 3:09 am
Still, Sharon Keller, the CCA's presiding judge, slammed the door shut on Richard's life. [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 5:46 am
"Judge Keller's actions denied Michael Richard two constitutional rights, access to the courts and due process, which led to his execution," the complaint states. [read post]
7 Mar 2009, 12:52 am
"UPDATE: See this Dallas News piece in which we learn that a) Judge Cheryl Johnson personally filed a complaint against Keller with the Commission on Judicial Conduct in the Michael Richard case, b) Judge Johnson later had to intervene to ensure the new rules Judge Meyers was bragging on to the press were actually followed when the new general counsel tried to reject another last-minute capital appeal, and c) that general counsel's "predecessor retired under pressure… [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 9:32 pm by LawDiva
Richard’s family sued Judge Keller, however, she was protected by judicial immunity and their lawsuit was tossed out. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 7:45 am by Steve Hall
Keller, 57, was absolved last week of wrongdoing, ending a legal fracas that began after she infamously ordered the court shut at 5 p.m. on Sept. 25, 2007, which lawyers for condemned killer Michael Richard said blocked them from filing a last-minute appeal. [read post]
13 Aug 2009, 7:56 am
As the court's logistics officer, Marty had called the judge at the behest of lawyers for Michael Richard, 49, who had been on Death Row for two decades and whose execution was scheduled for that evening. [read post]
14 Oct 2007, 12:00 pm
Keller's coldblooded response in the Richard case may have been the last straw that prompted the ethical complaint, but the appeals court has been grating on legal sensibilities for years. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 9:06 am
The lawsuit brought by Marsha Richard against Judge "Killer" Keller almost certainly will fail because of governmental immunity. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 9:18 am
But condemned killer Michael Richard's attempted appeal on Sept. 25 wasn't a baseless ploy to avoid execution for raping and fatally shooting Marguerite Dixon in 1986. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 10:55 pm
If I were an advocate for Richard or against Keller, I'd probably do the same thing. [read post]
6 Oct 2007, 6:46 pm
Keller didn't inform the appeals court judge assigned to Richard's case, or any of the other judges still in the office after 5 p.m., of the request by Richard's attorney to stay late to consider the appeal.Earlier that day, the Supreme Court had accepted an appeal from a Kentucky inmate arguing the legality of lethal injections. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 10:37 am
Justice Keller is now basically a defendant. [read post]
29 Nov 2014, 8:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The State agrees that Applicant is entitled to relief.The substantive debate played out in the dissenting opinion by Judge Sharon Keller and a concurrence by Judge Elsa Alcala, who ironically applied the same deferential standard to local prosecutors and the trial court that one normally sees from Keller and Co. when the state wants to hang-em-high. [read post]