Sharon Keller, wants the ethics charges against her judged by a stricter standard than any other such hearing.
. In the motion she filed with the commission, Keller requests that 37th District Judge David Berchelmann Jr., the special master for Keller's hearing, base his findings of fact regarding the charges against her on the evidentiary standard of clear and convincing evidence. Under judicial conduct commission rules, the master would base his findings on the lower standard of preponderance of the evidence. "Application of the preponderance of the evidence standard would not be sufficient to ensure that any deprivation of Respondent's [Keller's] property interest in her position as Presiding Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals would not be arbitrary," Keller alleges in the motion.
Just so we're clear-the spoiled little princess who thinks the state should pay for her attorneys (despite not having reported all her real estate holdings), and who effectively killed a man because his appeal couldn't get filed before 5 p.m. on the day he was to be executed is concerned that she might be judged in a possibly "arbitrary" way.
