Responding to sharp criticism, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has created an e-mail filing system for urgent pleadings in death penalty and other cases. About 300 attorneys from across the state petitioned the CCA in response to news reports about Presiding Judge Sharon Keller's decision not to keep the court clerk's office open past 5 p.m. on Sept. 25 so that attorneys representing death row inmate Michael Richard could file a motion to stay his execution. The state executed Richard later that day.
November 09, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Under sharp criticism because it lacked procedures for handling emergency filings to stay a Texas death row inmate’s execution, the state Court of Criminal Appeals has created an e-mail filing system for urgent pleadings in death penalty and other cases.
In a news release, the CCA announced the establishment of an e-mail link for emergency filings, effective Nov. 6.
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