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Wife of executed killer sues judge who blocked appeal
Houston Chronicle ^ | 11/8/07 | Cindy George

Posted on 11/08/2007 4:47:29 AM PST by laotzu

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This poor, poor man. I guess 20 years just wasn't quite enough time to appeal. Its an outrage.
1 posted on 11/08/2007 4:47:30 AM PST by laotzu
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I wonder what actual damages the wife alleges. It’s not like her husband had an earning potential.


2 posted on 11/08/2007 4:56:14 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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Richard, 49, was executed at 8:22 p.m. for a 1986 rape and murder.
1986. Rape. Murder.

His execution was long past-due.

Counter-sue this woman for wasting the time of the court with frivolous law suits and slap her lawyer with a huge, huge fine.

3 posted on 11/08/2007 4:57:11 AM PST by samtheman (Fred Thompson '08)
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Richard, 49, was executed at 8:22 p.m. for a 1986 rape and murder.

No kidding ... from the tone of the article, you'd think he was innocent; pure as the driven snow.

4 posted on 11/08/2007 4:58:34 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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5 posted on 11/08/2007 5:01:23 AM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".))
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Well - if this works, does it mean we are free to sue the judges who let guilty people walk or the parole board who releases someone who goes on to commit more crimes - maybe even murder. This is a door that the law can’t afford to open.


6 posted on 11/08/2007 5:01:44 AM PST by onevoter
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Don’t know anything about this particular case, but from a point of view of pure statistics and numbers Texas has to be executing innocent people here and there.


7 posted on 11/08/2007 5:03:11 AM PST by damondonion
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To: laotzu

Was his stint on “Seinfeld” really that bad??


8 posted on 11/08/2007 5:07:05 AM PST by wunderkind54
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No he was executed over the “N” word incident.


9 posted on 11/08/2007 5:08:34 AM PST by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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"Richard, 49, was executed at 8:22 p.m. for a 1986 rape and murder."
I wonder if the un-named rape and murder victim got their appeal in on time?
10 posted on 11/08/2007 5:08:34 AM PST by mtbrandon49
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The lawsuit says Keller violated Michael Richard's due process rights when she ordered the court clerk's office to close promptly at 5 p.m. on Sept. 25 before his lawyers could file an appeal.

Well honey, what time did the office OPEN???? Seems your lawyers had all bleepin' day to file an appeal. When you wait til the last minute you suffer the consequences.

11 posted on 11/08/2007 5:09:43 AM PST by rockabyebaby (HEY JORGE, SHUT UP AND BUILD THE BLEEPING FENCE, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.)
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I don’t know. The professor in the story said judges have immunity from every aspect of their court behavior but not administrative. It seems like the wife’s appropriate target would be her attorney who failed to allow for delivery contingencies in the appeal. His case was truely one of life and death and he allocated time as if it were a real estate settlement.


12 posted on 11/08/2007 5:14:16 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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To: damondonion
damondonion
Since Sep 4, 2007


but from a point of view of pure statistics and numbers Texas has to be executing innocent people here and there.
I suggest you provide a little evidence for your hypothesis before condemning the entire state's judicial system.
13 posted on 11/08/2007 5:18:19 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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That is what I was thinking - 20 years and it comes down to a filing deadline....I don’t think so. This is called grasping at straws over her guilty husband.


14 posted on 11/08/2007 5:21:47 AM PST by TheBattman (Duncan Hunter '08)
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Well you have all the DNA stuff setting many convicts free, but this makes us look petty. But this is just a by-product of the Abortion culture. Don’t want a baby, kill it. Don’t want to work late on a friday night, kill him.


15 posted on 11/08/2007 5:21:49 AM PST by Philly Nomad
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Oh really? I guess it could also be said that ‘From a point of view of pure statistics and numbers, you’re probably a troll on FR’.


16 posted on 11/08/2007 5:24:12 AM PST by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: laotzu
Speaking of Randall Kallinen....

Judicial candidate Randall Kallinen takes on right-wing zealots

Snort.

17 posted on 11/08/2007 5:25:15 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: laotzu

Her husband commits rape and murder, and she has the gall to whine about his final moments of physical discomfort and to sue a judge over it?


18 posted on 11/08/2007 5:25:30 AM PST by Hornitos
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Seems your lawyers had all bleepin' day to file an appeal.

The appeal was based on some Supreme Court action that occurred that day. It's sort of hard to appeal in the morning based on something that hasn't yet happened.

19 posted on 11/08/2007 5:28:52 AM PST by Publius Valerius
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And suddenly the wife is on stage in front of America after 20 years of appeals; etc. I smell; “I’m gonna make some money”.


20 posted on 11/08/2007 5:31:55 AM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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