Ask the experts: Judge Sharon Keller has to go

Here's an interesting twist in the ongoing saga of whether Presiding Judge Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.  It seems those that actually know legal ethics seem to think Judge Keller is, well, ethically challenged.  

In a written declaration by some 24 experts on judicial ethics, Judge Keller is violated judicial ethics, including her obligation to provide litigants due process of law.  It seems the primary concern of the experts is Judge Keller's statements that she is a prosecution-oriented person.  It's hard to believe no one has ever complained like this about a sitting criminal appellate court judge openly stating she is pro-prosecution.  Could this set a precedent for other sitting judges who are openly pro-prosecution?

Another source of contention with the experts is the judge's lying misrepresentations in her sworn answer to the formal proceedings in In Re:  Honorable Sharon Keller.  Not only that, but it seems it's unethical for a judge to get the state to pay for her defense when she owns almost $2 million dollars in real estate holding that she blatantly omitted forgot to include in her financial disclosure statement.  

I suppose it's strange that such a declaration would be submitted in an ethics case.  Of course, I can't say many people are as interested in an ethics case as this one.  

Or is it strange that it has taken this long for someone to do something about Judge Keller?  But what the hell do I know?

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