tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post5713422989179737443..comments2024-03-15T05:45:01.402-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Judges as Grantmakers: Sharon Keller's secret soft side on indigent defenseGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-82637314374936625962010-07-12T11:08:19.340-05:002010-07-12T11:08:19.340-05:00Well, when you put it that way TDCJ EX, I guess th...Well, when you put it that way TDCJ EX, I guess that DOES sound pretty evil. Ok, I concede that she's evil. Let's hope she gets the chance to see first hand what she has wrought, namely by being cast down into a hell of her own making. In other words, I hope she goes to prison and has a really horrible time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-20175519537862732882010-07-11T20:25:16.931-05:002010-07-11T20:25:16.931-05:00Scott I will stand by my statement that Keller is ...Scott I will stand by my statement that Keller is evil I look at as some one who was incarcerated in TDCJ and also in this light . Any one who willing use their power to ensure that a possibly innocent person is executed is a evil being . I cannot imagine the horror of those being on death row knowing you are innocent and one person in particular will do anything in their power to ensure you are executed . Oi cannot imge the horror they feel in the last days and hours of their life and then being f strapped to a gurney forcibly by cowardly men who refuse to allow their names be public and That humans life snuffed ouas if they are just number on a docket To do this because of a political agenda and to further their career that is the definition of evil . <br /><br />We aretalkng about the power to decide who lives and who dies who will be incarcerated and who wil not . Abusing succh power is evil to do so willingly and with the knowledge that a person innocent person might well lose thier life or spend years in prison is evil .<br /> <br /><br /><br /> I think it is righto call her for what she is it is not hyperbole to say she is evil she might at onetime not been a fair person but that was a longtime ago . Keller has become everything she claims to be against . Any one who will wiling an knowing let a possibly innocent human be executed is evil . Any one who refuses to use their power to look into the possibility of innocence or misconduct in any case is evil . <br /><br />I have been in TDCJ on Polunsky . I cannot imagine what a totally innocent person feels . Prison is not at all what any one who has not been there like . I cannot describe to you what I lived . The loneliness, the stripping away any of your humanity and any dignity you might have had it is .You become a number in white it is living in total despair the fear of losing ones sanity is what prison is .it is being subjected or exposed to all manner of depravity mostly on the part of bosses and rank who are some of the most brutal and sadistic people I have ever encountered they are far worse than those they guard . I saw men snap and lose their minds I saw guards subject humans to depravity that would disturb any one and lived this for many years. What ever any one thinks of prison it is not what you think or see on “lock up type shows Prison in it self is a evil place . <br /><br />I suggest asking those who were innocent and were in TDCJ what it is like to live that knowing you are innocent an because of Keller s influence you cannot show it . Her words in her interview regarding Roy Criner are chilling . She claim she does not know how a person can show their innocence and believes procedure and finality take precedence over fact and humanity . That is evil to say well you have to stay in prison because Sharon Keller demands finality the jury does to want to have hurt feelings because they got it wrong and the victims need closure is evil . That is human sacrifice . Keller has said that humans are expandable that is evil . <br /><br />RS I agree that others are even worse in SC )justice system is both corrupt and evil they will willing and knowingly send innocent people to prison . They will knowingly and deliberately suborn perjury to secure a convection . That is evil<br /><br />If a person spend time as a prisoner in TDCJ you will see why I call Sharon Keller evil .TDCJEXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-80424226144506296562010-07-10T21:41:59.999-05:002010-07-10T21:41:59.999-05:00TDCJ EX, I'm not saying she's evil. Just c...TDCJ EX, I'm not saying she's evil. Just callous, criminal, and unsuited to being a judge. If we're talking evil, my vote would go to Bradley or Kevin Brackett in SC. Brackett is even worse than Bradley, if you can believe it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-23492600693515538502010-07-10T21:38:12.679-05:002010-07-10T21:38:12.679-05:003:17
I call bullshit.3:17<br />I call bullshit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-39644554686008814872010-07-10T13:17:49.229-05:002010-07-10T13:17:49.229-05:00Sharon Keller is not evil.
She hasn't always ...Sharon Keller is not evil.<br /><br />She hasn't always exhibited a judicial temperament and IMO she lets her personal political agenda sway her judging, but the situation is bad enough without resorting to hyperbole.<br /><br />As to the grants, the grant requests from each group should be available under the Public Information Act (assuming it doesn't fall under one of the exceptions carved out for the judiciary, which would be unfortunate). For starters, though, read the full state auditor's report for much more detail than I've given here.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-3904706917661917582010-07-10T10:11:22.709-05:002010-07-10T10:11:22.709-05:00Grits the best question is should the CCA be the s...Grits the best question is should the CCA be the source or branch of government that provides financial aid for criminal defense . I would think that there is a inherent conflict of interest . And those receiving grants will avoid offending the grant maker . Such as raising issues about the fairness of the CCA and it 's blatant pro prosecution bias where they have upheld the flimsiest of convictions on the Harmless Error rule .Those become worse when every pone of those judges is at the end of the day a politician and will do politically popular things instead of what is right . That was the reason behind appointing a supreme court in the US Constitution . Though I think it is time to limit how long a person can be in many government positions . I know of people who simply gave up challenging their conviction because thy knew the CCA would find some way to up hold the conviction despite the facts .I know a few sick individuals will take perverse pleasure in this .<br /><br /><br />Is there away OT find out who got the grants I and what issues they raised in the CCA as well as who thy took on as clients ? That will tell you a lot . I don't like the idea otter state have a independent public defenders office that is separate from law enforcement and many of them do a very good job despite occasionally whine about them not doing a good job because they got convicted . <br /><br /><br />R Shackelford . I fully agree Keller is a evil person and I hope she goes to TDCJTDCJEXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-5882458634931414792010-07-09T20:00:10.811-05:002010-07-09T20:00:10.811-05:00She doesn't usurp the will of the people as ex...She doesn't usurp the will of the people as expressed through the legislature? Are you kidding me? In Montoya v. State, she spearheaded the charge to rewrite the law that the legislature had just rewritten. Decided that they didn't really mean to change the law. She respects nothing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-60377447280344249172010-07-09T19:18:55.431-05:002010-07-09T19:18:55.431-05:00Calling Keller a "strict constructionist"...Calling Keller a "strict constructionist" is absolutely laughable. She decides first who she wants to win a case then concocts an argument to support her favored party. And a "strict constructionist" wouldn't be as quick to overlook flagrant violations of law as "harmless error." What a joke!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-47859157102147285292010-07-09T15:32:17.565-05:002010-07-09T15:32:17.565-05:00A human being cannot be reduced to the worst thing...A human being cannot be reduced to the worst thing s/he has ever done - even Sharon Keller. But that doesn't mean she should not be removed from office for the worst thing she has ever done (that we know of).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-42193822573525425062010-07-09T15:17:00.932-05:002010-07-09T15:17:00.932-05:00Keller is a "strict constructionist." Sh...Keller is a "strict constructionist." She doesn't interpret the law in an expansive fashion or attempt to usurp the will of the people as expressed through the legislature. She also seems to give great deference to the verdicts of juries and doesn't lightly overturn them. I'm not sure why that seems to upset so many people on this blog, but maybe it's because liberals have become conditioned in this country that judges should actively insert their own personal liberal views into matters of public importance regardless of what the public has voted for or expects. At any rate, none of these means that Keller doesn't believe in fair play and the rule of law. Her accomplishments with the Task Force on Indigent Defense doesn't really come as any surprise to those who have watched how she conducts herself for some time now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-68858857162405948922010-07-09T11:00:35.078-05:002010-07-09T11:00:35.078-05:00However, a little-discussed 2009 report from the s...<em>However, a little-discussed 2009 report from the state auditor lamented that the CCA "lacks formal, written policies and procedures for awarding and administering grants."</em><br /><br />And of course, it was a lack of formal, written policies and procedures regarding last minute death penalty appeals that got Keller into official trouble in the first place. Funny how these things work, isn't it?Charles Kuffnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14017754405865832150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-27089871967525054582010-07-09T10:50:51.812-05:002010-07-09T10:50:51.812-05:00Yeah...so she does some nice things. Whoopiddy fre...Yeah...so she does some nice things. Whoopiddy freaking do. I bet even Hitler was nice to his dog. Doesn't change the fact that she broke the laws she's supposed to uphold, not once but several times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com