Sharon Keller FAQ Answers about this week's trial of the state's
highest criminal judge Austin American Statesman By Chuck Lindell AMERICAN - STATESMAN STAFF, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009
This is what apparently was on the mind of Judge Sharon Keller, the state's
top criminal judge, on the 2007 day that murderer Michael Wayne Richard was slated to die.
The next day, the
great criminal judge called him and said to him, «Is it true that you follow the religion of the Master of heaven?»
Thus, participants acted
like criminal judges; the fact that their punishment decisions correlated strongly with the prison sentences they deemed appropriate for the crimes in question attests to the fact that they saw themselves in this role.
In March 2010 Lord Justice Thomas, the second most
senior criminal judge, was due to sentence Innospec Ltd for its bribery of officials in the Indonesian oil ministry.
His reporting has led to indictments against several local politicians and the ouster of a
chief criminal judge, but he's likely best known for breaking the story of Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein.
«When a man's life is on the line — to say nothing of the U.S. Constitution — our
top criminal judge should behave like one: with prudence, fairness, and a calm hand.
As he describes it, the approach to education — particularly
for criminal judges — began to shift dramatically in the early 1990s, when the Court began working with the Western Judicial Education Centre (WJEC).
For example,
the criminal judge may tire of seeing the perpetrator back in court over financial issues, or the perpetrator may convince the court that he or she can't pay.
Rather, this post is about how emails, much as we would wish them to be, are not ephemera, are not the same as grumbling to a friend at a corner spot in the bar about how stupid / misguided /
criminal a judge might be.
«Delay reduction» was set to become the banner cry — and the focus of the work of many of
the criminal judges of the new Court for years to come as they conducted «blitz courts» and introduced new scheduling practices across the province to tackle the delays.
The types of convictions leading to deportation are very broad and even include offenses that
the criminal judge considered minor enough to warrant no time in jail.
Civil judges are available at all hours to sign temporary restraining orders as are
criminal judges to approve search warrants.
The SFO was persuaded to drop its claim for confiscation and
the criminal judge decided not to make any order for compensation.