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Sharon Faye Keller (born August 1, 1953) is the Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She is a Republican. Education and early career Born in ...
Presiding Judge Sharon Keller. Place 1. Sharon Keller is a native Texan. She holds a B.A. degree in philosophy from Rice University and a J.D. degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law. Judge Keller began her legal career in 1978 in the private practice of law in Dallas. Subsequently, she worked for several years for her family ...
Feb 15, 2024 · Schenck, 56, is challenging current Presiding Judge Sharon Keller. He was a deputy attorney general under now-Gov. Greg Greg Abbott and a former Fifth Court of Appeals justice until 2022.
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Keller was born in Dallas, Texas. She received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Rice University in 1975 and a J.D. from Southern Methodist University in 1978. After graduating from law school, Keller worked as a private attorney. She then worked for her family's business in the restaurant industry from 1981 to 1987. From 1987 to 1994, she was...
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Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship
1. 1.1. See also: Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship and Ballotpedia Courts: Determiners and Dissenters Last updated: June 15, 2020 In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020. The study presented Confidence Scoresthat represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ide...
Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores
1. 1.1. See also: Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores of state supreme court justices, 2012 In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal. Keller received a campaign finance score of 1.17, indicating a conservativ...
Texas Ethics Commission fine for failure to disclose finances
On March 30, 2009, The Dallas Morning News reported that Keller had "failed to abide by legal requirements that she disclose nearly $2 million in real estate holdings." Keller was required to file a statement of her finances in order to seek state aid in her defense against ethics charges related to the Michael Richard death penalty case. Keller filed a sworn statement with the Texas Ethics Commission in April 2008 indicating an income of over $275,000 and disclosing ownership in airline stoc...
Ethics charges related to Michael Richard death penalty case
Michael Richard, a convicted murderer, was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on September 25, 2007. Around 4:45 p.m., defense lawyers requested to file paperwork for an appeal with the court clerk's office after its closing time of 5 p.m. The appeal was spurred by the U.S. Supreme Courtagreeing earlier that day to hear a case challenging lethal injection. Keller responded by saying that the clerk's office closed at 5 p.m. Richard was executed that night. Keller said, "I got a phone...
Ex parte Fierro
Keller wrote the November 1996 majority opinion in Ex parte Fierro, affirming the conviction of Cesar Fierro for the 1979 murder of Nicolas Castanon, an El Paso taxi driver. Fierro was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1980. Five months after Castanon was killed, 16-year-old Gerardo Olague testified that Castanon was driving him and Fierro to Juarez, Mexico, when Fierro shot Castanon. Fierro was arrested and confessed to the murder. Later, however, Fierro alleged that El P...
Feb 23, 2024 · Keller has served on the court since 1994 and been presiding judge since 2001. Schenck is a 56-year-old appellate lawyer and former assistant attorney general who served eight years on the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas and has chaired the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct. During his opening on Monday, Schenck noted that 70-year-old ...
Oct 16, 2024 · Under the leadership of the Presiding Judge Sharon Keller, who has held that position since 2000, the court has long rejected the appeals of Texans on death row, only rarely overturning sentences ...
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Presiding Judge Sharon Keller. Place 1. Sharon Keller is a native Texan. She holds a B.A. degree in philosophy from Rice University and a J.D. degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law. Judge Keller began her legal career in 1978 in the private practice of law in Dallas.
