A Texas Judge on Trial: Closed to a Death-Row Appeal?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

they should....it is a situation where they have a public charge and legal responsibility .....and her job and duties do not always end at 1700 hrs

true. This is, after all, a real matter of life/death. Whether one is for or against state-sanctioned-murder/capital punishment or not; when you take on public office, you work for the public. B1tch... like almaty says, hang her by the.... wait, she has no nabs. DAMNIT!!!

Nabs = no

Nips = yes

[Niels Bohr 72]

Being on salary is always a 24/7 job. Everyone here who are salaried would agree.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

they should....it is a situation where they have a public charge and legal responsibility .....and her job and duties do not always end at 1700 hrs

true. This is, after all, a real matter of life/death. Whether one is for or against state-sanctioned-murder/capital punishment or not; when you take on public office, you work for the public. B1tch... like almaty says, hang her by the.... wait, she has no nabs. DAMNIT!!!

Nabs = no

Nips = yes

You just want the video after it happens for your S/M collection, you naughty boy

[scandal 951]

they should....it is a situation where they have a public charge and legal responsibility .....and her job and duties do not always end at 1700 hrs

true. This is, after all, a real matter of life/death. Whether one is for or against state-sanctioned-murder/capital punishment or not; when you take on public office, you work for the public. B1tch... like almaty says, hang her by the.... wait, she has no nabs. DAMNIT!!!

Nabs = no

Nips = yes

You just want the video after it happens for your S/M collection, you naughty boy

Me too, plz

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Dudes, that is sick! Do you really want to see this being hanged by the nips?????

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Well it wouldn't be for $hits and giggles

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Well it wouldn't be for $hits and giggles

Good. I was beginning to worry about you

[almaty 19]

oh, i thought you were in too some native american spirituality and you were going to hung ny the nips, comrade len..nevermind..

[Chica Yeyé 41]

oh, i thought you were in too some native american spirituality and you were going to hung ny the nips, comrade len..nevermind..

perv. as all redheads. perv.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Didn't Richard Harris actually do that in that movie?

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

Another example that we need to end capital punishment.

Charles,

Support for Capital punishment is against the VJ TOS. William and Ewok have both weighed in on this matter. We are not allowed to call for the taking of lives of others.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...t&p=3205514

it's obe (overcome by events, not officer of the british empire) in that the guy being talked about is already dead...

For the record - my argument is not with you. As usual, it's with VJ mod policies.

As I understand it, calling for the death of someone is against VJ TOS (eg daboyz call for the death of Thaksin)

Ok - so death rows across America are full of people slated for death.

Comments like this one from death-penalty supporters:

In this day and age with forensics what it is and how tough it is to get a death penalty,I think that alone would be enough to justify having the death penalty.

would appear to advocate killing currently live people. Ergo, TOS violation.

Silly argument, you say? Sure.

looking_up is entitled to his opinion. It's mainstream in this country, even if I happen to disagree. I don't think he should be barred.

I'm just pointing out the inconsistency in the treatment daboyz got.

what i feel ewok and william was getting at is this - the one in the thread you linked was part of the political structure of a country. the guy in the op story isn't.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Didn't Richard Harris actually do that in that movie?

Did too... an amazing movie, btw.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

follow up:

Review chides US judge who refused death row appeal

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A Texas judge who refused to open her courtroom to a last-minute death penalty appeal should not be removed from her job, a judge reviewing the case has found.

Judge Sharon Keller caused a firestorm by deciding on September 25, 2007 that she would not allow lawyers for death row prisoner Michael Richard to file a final appeal against his death sentence.

But the judge reviewing the incident, David Berchelmann, ruled that Richard's lawyers shared blame for "communication failures" on the day Richard was executed.

"Although Judge Keller's conduct on that day was not exemplary, she did not engage in conduct so egregious that she should be removed from office," he wrote in a ruling obtained by AFP Thursday.

"Indeed, although Judge Keller's actions did not help the situation, the majority of the problems involving the Richard execution were the responsibility of the Texas defender service," he added.

The incident unfolded on September 25, 2007, when the US Supreme Court announced it would consider whether execution by lethal injection was constitutional.

Richard, 48, was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection that same day at around 8:00pm.

His lawyers decided to file a motion seeking to halt his execution until the Supreme Court ruled, but they reportedly ran into computer problems that delayed them and called the courthouse to request it stay open for another 20 minutes.

"We close at 5:00 pm," was the firm reply.

Richard was executed that evening and became the last person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States before a seven month moratorium that lasted until the Supreme Court ruled.

Richard's lawyers discovered the day after their client's execution that Keller was responsible for the refusal to keep the court open and went to the press with the story, prompting a disciplinary committee to review her conduct.

In August, Keller told the commission she had indeed said "We close at 5:00pm," but only because she knew there were other ways to file last-minute appeals.

Berchelmann agreed, adding that Richard's lawyers "should have known of the ways in which they could file last-minute documents."

He added that the evidence suggested the defense team was not having major computer problems, and said that "its actions in the Richard case did not match its typically estimable practice."

Berchelmann acknowledged that "Judge Keller certainly did not exhibit a model of open communication," adding that "she should have been more open and helpful."

"There is a valid reason why many in the legal community are not proud of Judge Keller's actions," he continued.

But ultimately, he said, the attention drawn to the case by Richard's lawyers, who he accused of putting Keller on trial in the media was sufficient punishment.

"Her conduct... does not warrant removal from office or even further reprimand beyond the public humiliation she has surely suffered," he wrote.

The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that lethal injection was a constitutional method of execution.

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[SMR 368]

follow up:

Review chides US judge who refused death row appeal

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A Texas judge who refused to open her courtroom to a last-minute death penalty appeal should not be removed from her job, a judge reviewing the case has found.

Judge Sharon Keller caused a firestorm by deciding on September 25, 2007 that she would not allow lawyers for death row prisoner Michael Richard to file a final appeal against his death sentence.

But the judge reviewing the incident, David Berchelmann, ruled that Richard's lawyers shared blame for "communication failures" on the day Richard was executed.

"Although Judge Keller's conduct on that day was not exemplary, she did not engage in conduct so egregious that she should be removed from office," he wrote in a ruling obtained by AFP Thursday.

"Indeed, although Judge Keller's actions did not help the situation, the majority of the problems involving the Richard execution were the responsibility of the Texas defender service," he added.

The incident unfolded on September 25, 2007, when the US Supreme Court announced it would consider whether execution by lethal injection was constitutional.

Richard, 48, was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection that same day at around 8:00pm.

His lawyers decided to file a motion seeking to halt his execution until the Supreme Court ruled, but they reportedly ran into computer problems that delayed them and called the courthouse to request it stay open for another 20 minutes.

"We close at 5:00 pm," was the firm reply.

Richard was executed that evening and became the last person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States before a seven month moratorium that lasted until the Supreme Court ruled.

Richard's lawyers discovered the day after their client's execution that Keller was responsible for the refusal to keep the court open and went to the press with the story, prompting a disciplinary committee to review her conduct.

In August, Keller told the commission she had indeed said "We close at 5:00pm," but only because she knew there were other ways to file last-minute appeals.

Berchelmann agreed, adding that Richard's lawyers "should have known of the ways in which they could file last-minute documents."

He added that the evidence suggested the defense team was not having major computer problems, and said that "its actions in the Richard case did not match its typically estimable practice."

Berchelmann acknowledged that "Judge Keller certainly did not exhibit a model of open communication," adding that "she should have been more open and helpful."

"There is a valid reason why many in the legal community are not proud of Judge Keller's actions," he continued.

But ultimately, he said, the attention drawn to the case by Richard's lawyers, who he accused of putting Keller on trial in the media was sufficient punishment.

"Her conduct... does not warrant removal from office or even further reprimand beyond the public humiliation she has surely suffered," he wrote.

The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that lethal injection was a constitutional method of execution.

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I imagine they close at 5 every day. It wasn't as if she made a special rule to screw this guy over. There was no rule that she needed to stay open to take his appeal. Why is it so appalling that she went home to meet the repairman? She had no obligation to stay and have other obligations. If some defense attorneys can't get their act together, that really isn't her problem. Would it have been nice to stay? Probably. Was it ridiculous not to? No.

The man had been appealing for 20 years. And this last appeal wasn't any sort of denial that he did it. He was simply appealing the sentence.

Edited January 26, 2010 by SMR

[CDAgirlMI 51]

People in this country have to grow some f**kin balls.

The guy doesn't deserve to take up space in any prison & should've been executed LONG before waiting 20 years.

And they're blaming Keller for not staying late? After denied appeals & waiting the last minute???

Case closed. Good ending.