Court of Criminal Appeals Re-Elects 'Killer' Keller

ELECTION 2012

• President Barack Obama: Four More Years

  Cautious optimism about impending change in Washington

  BY MICHAEL KING

• Texas Lege: The GOP Wave Recedes

  Locally, nothing changed

  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

• Wins for Med School and Health Care

  Travis County voters approve tax hike to fund UT med school

  BY MIKE KANIN

• AISD: Insurgents and Ed Austin Win 3 of 4

  Hinojosa won by the biggest margin

  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

• Props & Bonds: Mixed, but Definitely Dramatic

  Everything gets the green light except 6, 8, and 15

  BY MICHAEL KING

• Third Court Turns Bright Red

  Dem Diane Henson loses her seat But Keith Hampton isn't giving up

  BY JORDAN SMITH

• Local State Board of Ed Hopefuls Lose Again

  Will SBOE's ideological wars continue for another four years?

  BY ELIZABETH PAGANO

• Other Races

  And all the rest

• Court of Criminal Appeals Re-Elects 'Killer' Keller

  Gerald Daugherty is back

  BY JORDAN SMITH

• A GOP Win in Huber-Daugherty Replay

  Gerald Daugherty is back

  BY AMY SMITH

Amazingly, voters on Tuesday night chose to re-elect Court of Criminal Appeals GOP Presiding Judge Sharon "Killer" Keller – overlooking her ethical lapses (such as the 2010 failure to disclose to the Texas Ethics Commission millions of dollars in personal assets, and more infamously declaring in 2007 that the courthouse closes at 5pm, effectively foreclosing a death row inmate's ability to appeal) and the fact that she chose not to campaign and instead sat back and let the "R" next to her name do the work for her. Keith Hampton may have lost the race, but he's still in the battle to restore balance to the statewide courts: "Vote Hampton 2014," he wrote in a postelection text message to the Chronicle.