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Sharon Keller’s Been a Bad, Bad Girl

| March 30, 2009

The Dallas Morning News reports that Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller, who recently whined about not getting Chip Babcock appointed to represent her in the Commission for Judicial Conduct’s suit against her, “failed to abide by legal requirements that she disclose nearly $2 million in real estate holdings” in a sworn [...]

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Rick Casey Gets it Right

| March 27, 2009

Commenting on Sharon Keller’s whining about being denied the right to counsel because she has to choose between representing herself and paying Chip Babcock’s full fare, the Chronicle’s Rick Casey writes: The judge should know better, especially in these tough times, than to ask us taxpayers to agree to a lawyer whose usual and customary [...]

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Welcome, Former Prosecutors, to the Real World

| April 14, 2008

Two recent news items, perhaps pertinent to the question of whether prosecutors lead more sheltered existences than self-employed lawyers: In Searching for New Job, Gonzales Sees No Takers – New York Times and Law of Criminal Defense – And you think the economy sucks? Ask any criminal-defense lawyer Let me sum up: former top prosecutor [...]

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