The Texas Lawyer reported today that 20 lawyers are filing a complaint against the Presiding Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals. Just after the US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case about the protocol for lethal injection, a Texas inmate attempted to file a Motion to Stay his execution - scheduled for later that day. The lawyers for the soon to be executed inmate called the Court of Criminal Appeals and asked them to stay open late to receive the Motion to Stay Execution. Chief Justice Keller apparently told the staff at the Court that it is the policy of the Court to close at 5:00 pm, and the Court closed.
The Inmate was not able to request a stay of execution in Texas, and thus could not request a stay at the Supreme Court. Therefore, he was executed. If all this is true, I would think that this sounds pretty bad. I wondered about this is a prior post, but would never have guessed that the reason was so mundane. My prior post wondered whether the US Supreme Court was at fault...clearly it was not. The problem, if there is one, is right here in Texas.
Here's a link to the Complaint against Chief Justice Keller.
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