Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Austin, Texas
3 PM: Meet at Texas Governor’s Mansion
3:30: March around mansion, down Congress Ave to Austin City Hall
4 pm: Rally at City Hall Plaza
More details on this year’s march will be announced soon.
Farley Matchett Sept 12
Urge Gov Perry to Stop the Execution of Farley Matchett
Pedro Sosa Sept 25
The MySpace parody profile of Sharon Keller is up at a new address: www.myspace.com/judgesharonkiller. The blog is at http://blog.myspace.com/judgesharonkiller
It is also up at Tagworld: http://tagworld.com/sharonkiller/
and here: http://blog.sharonkiller.com
After the article below appeared in today’s Austin Chronicle, MySpace (perhaps at the request of Sharon Keller or her campaign), deleted the parody profile of Sharon Keller and, get this, replaced it with a fake “Sharon” profile at the same address http://profile.myspace.com/sharonkiller . That is hilariously ironic – to delete a fake parody profile and replace it with another fake profile. Of course, Sharon has done worse, she once denied a new trial for an innocent man after DNA testing had exonerated him. She wanted to keep him in prison arguing that the victim was a slut so it was hard to say who she had sex with. In Keller’s own words, “the state would have explained that the girl was promiscuous, and might have shown that she’d had sex with different people.”
Sharon Keller must be pretty desperate to keep people from learning about her record, which has made the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals a “national laughingstock”, as her colleague on the court Tom Price has said.
The Austin Chronicle picked up on the Sharon Keller profile on MySpace. The profile has been deleted twice now, assumedly at the request of Judge Killer herself, but it is back up for the third time, so check it out while you can.
On MySpace, her profile is listed as Sharon Killer, a play on the name of Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, whose reputation as a hanging judge has earned her a satirical spot on the cyber meet-and-greet circuit. A couple of anti-death penalty activists – Scott Cobb and Hooman Hedayati – crafted the cleverly penned Keller profile and blog to draw attention to the justice’s “ideologically driven” record on crime and punishment. And what a record it is. One of Keller’s greatest embarrassments to Texas involved her firm stance against giving prison inmate Roy Criner a new trial, even after a DNA test proved he didn’t commit the rape and murder for which he was convicted and sentenced to 99 years. It took Gov. George Bush, then a candidate for president, to step in and grant Criner clemency. Keller, a Republican, is running for re-election against Democrat J.R. Molina, a trial lawyer from Tarrant County. The Keller spoof is actually making its second appearance on the site after MySpace operators deleted the first effort last week. By the time you read this, it may have been killed off a second time, but go to profile.myspace.com/sharonkiller just for kicks and see what happens. – A.S.
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