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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]
18 May 2009, 3:35 am
Keller, the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is facing formal proceedings from the state Judicial Conduct Commission accusing her of violating the rights Michael Wayne Richard who was executed in 2007. [read post]
15 May 2009, 8:18 am
The commission initiated formal proceedings against Keller on Feb. 19 for alleged "willful and persistent conduct" in failing to follow CCA execution-day procedures on the day Richard was executed. [read post]
4 May 2009, 10:10 am
Last week, a group of 24 national experts on judicial ethics issued a statement that Judge Keller has consistently demonstrated a lack of impartiality in cases involving criminal defendants like Richard that violates their constitutional right to due process of law. [read post]
4 May 2009, 10:03 am
Shack previously has described her omissions as inadvertent.The News began reviewing Keller's finances after she cited undue financial stress in trying to dismiss ethics charges stemming from allegations that she refused to allow a death row inmate to file a last-minute appeal to stave off execution.Keller faces a hearing before a special master in August on her handling of Michael Wayne Richard's unsuccessful appeal in September 2007. [read post]
1 May 2009, 1:32 pm
Talley, Douglas Craig Cooley, John Lund Keller, Thomas Raymond Simpson Jr., Jerome Richard Spencer, and Elizabeth Dorothy Theobalds. [read post]
1 May 2009, 10:38 am
After all, Johnson was the duty judge assigned to handle Richard's case. [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 8:25 am
Keller's handling of the Richard case was so outrageous that the State Commission on Judicial Conduct has accused her of violating her duty to protect his access to the legal system and bringing discredit on the judiciary. [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 11:57 pm
This to me is an even stronger argument for her ouster than the Michael Richard debacle. [read post]
22 Apr 2009, 9:59 am
Although Richard was executed that night, the Court of Criminal Appeals (over which Judge Keller presides) later granted two stays of execution based on the same arguments Richard's lawyers attempted to present. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 12:46 pm
Keller is facing a hearing on misconduct charges later this year for her actions in the death row case of Michael Richard. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 8:02 am
Attorneys for Michael Wayne Richard say keeping the office open later may have helped in their appeal efforts hours before Richard was executed.Earlier coverage begins with this post. [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 11:42 am
Keller has been roundly criticized, and rightly so, for refusing to stay past closing time to consider Richard's last-minute appeal. [read post]
31 Mar 2009, 8:35 am
The State Commission on Judicial Conduct case stems from Judge Keller's alleged refusal to receive a last-minute appeal hours before death-row inmate Michael Richard was executed in September 2007.You can view TPJ's letter to Travis County Attorney David Escamilla and the Texas Ethics Commission. [read post]
31 Mar 2009, 1:04 am
In her answer to the commission's Notice of Formal Proceedings, Keller alleges she never was told that Michael Richard's lawyers were having computer problems that delayed them in filing for a stay of execution on Sept. 25, 2007, the day that the state executed Richard. [read post]
30 Mar 2009, 7:44 am
The inmate, Michael Richard, was executed within hours.And: The sworn statement Keller was required to file with the Texas Ethics Commission last April reflected income of more than $275,000, including her annual state salary of $152,500. [read post]
27 Mar 2009, 10:42 am
Richard then became the last man executed before the start of a seven-month moratorium.Neal Manne, an attorney for the Texas Defender Service, stressed that "nothing in today's response changes the fact that Judge Keller knowingly broke the rules. [read post]