Ethics in Texas is never really ethical, and this case is no different. Judge Sharon Keller closed her office promptly at 5pm and allowed a man to be executed, rather than accepting the appeal.
Her ethics trial for 5 counts of judicial misconduct resulted in nothing. TX State District Judge David Berchelmann of the 37th District in Bexar County said that Keller's actions "were not exemplary" before Michael Richard was executed in 2007. He also recommended that she receive no reprimand except for the public humiliation she already received. Even though Berchelmann wrote a few small jabs at Keller, he said she broke no written laws or rules.
Republican judges saving Republican judges. Ahhhh the ethics of Texas. Way to go, impartial judiciary.
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