If you are not a Harris County Criminal Lawyers' Association member and would like to join in HCCLA's complaint against Sharon Keller to be filed on Monday, please sign this form (PDF) and fax it to 832.201.7770.
According to this blog from a Houston attorney, a second complaint against Judge Sharon Keller is in the works.
The Harris County Criminal Lawyers' Association is going to be filing a complaint against Judge Keller with the Commission on Judicial Conduct on Monday. Tomorrow from about 10:30 a.m. to about noon I will be in the ready room on the 7th floor of the Harris County Criminal Courthouse, 1201 Franklin Street at San Jacinto, with a copy of the complaint for you to sign.
If you know any lawyers in Houston, let them know about this opportunity to sign the second complaint.
Meanwhile, coverage of yesterday's filing of the complaint against Keller by 20 lawyers (read full text of the complaint here) was on the front page of the Houston Chronicle in an article that has former Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox and former Governor (and former Attorney General) Mark White criticizing current Attorney General Greg Abbott.
Excerpt from Houston Chronicle article:
Former Gov. Mark White and former Attorney General Jim Mattox, who both fought to enforce the state's capital punishment laws during their terms as attorney general, said Abbott, as the state's top lawyer, has a duty to halt executions when they appear to violate an inmate's due process rights.
White said Abbott is an officer of the court and he "should have been obligated to ask for a stay" in the Richard execution.
Mattox said the attorney general may lack actual legal authority to stop an execution, but the state prison system will follow an attorney general's order.
Mattox, who witnessed more than 30 executions, said he once ordered an inmate off the execution gurney over prison system protests because he knew the man would receive a stay.
"When the state is all powerful, the state has got to be cautious in how it uses its power," he said. "Sometimes you do things not to protect the individual but to protect the system itself."