Sharon Keller received a "public warning" from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for refusing to keep her office open past 5 pm on the day Michael Wayne Richard, a death row inmate, was scheduled to die.

"Judge Keller's conduct on September 25, 2007 did not accord Richard access to open courts of the right to be heard according to law," the report says, "[It] constitutes willful or persistent conduct that is clearly inconsistent with the proper performance of her duties as a judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals." (Download the report to the right.)

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