Judge Sharon KellerIn January 2008, Matt Pulle profiled Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller, the former Dallas County prosecutor and hamburger heiress who attracted national attention in September 2007 when she closed up shop and went home promptly at 5 p.m. even as condemned inmate Michael Richard's attorneys were on their way with a last-minute appeal. Judging by the comments attached to Matt's story and elsewhere, plenty of Texans weren't displeased with "Killer" Keller's acti
Judge Sharon KellerSo, back to Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller. But only because there's breaking news this afternoon: The Austin American-Statesman's gotten hold of a notice of formal proceedings from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, which says that "Judge Keller's willful and persistent failure to follow CCA's Execution-Day procedures on Sept. 25, 2007, constitutes incompetence in the performance of duties of office." In total, the commission alleges five violations of t
Judge Sharon Keller​Yesterday's Austin American-Statesman provided a lengthy sneak preview of Judge Sharon Keller's defense in advance of her August 17 special trial: The Greenhill and SMU grad is going to claim the defense attorneys lied, maybe just a little but maybe a whole lot, about having computer problems on September 25, 2007, that now-infamous day during which she refused to keep the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals open past 5 p.m. in order to receive their last-minute appeal on behal
