Thanks to the genius that is Twitter, we found another statewide candidate in Texas as a Democrat! Keith Hampton , an Austin defense attorney, tweeted me about his run for TX Court of Criminal Appeals #6, currently held by Judge Michael Keasler, one of the more conservative members of the court. Keasler last won reelection over J.R. Molina in 2004.
Hampton is the lawyer who convinced death penalty happy Governor Rick Perry and the TX Board of Pardons and Paroles to actually commute the sentence of Kenneth Foster Jr to life in prison 3 hours before his scheduled execution. That in and of itself is to be commended and a rarity in Texas.
In case you are wondering the TX Court of Criminal Appeals is the same one that Judge Sharon Keller presides over. The same judge who let someone be executed in 2007 because her office closed promptly at 5pm. She is also on trial for misconduct, pending a yet to be stated verdict from August.
We hope someone else will run with Hampton. There are 3 seats up for election in 2010 on the court.
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