Should a Lawyer's Mistake Kill the Client?

Courtesy Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Wed, 10/17/2007 - 11:24pm

There’s been some poorly reasoned counter-arguments bandied about the blogosphere regarding the push to have Sharon ‘Killer’ Keller sanctioned, impeached and/or disbarred for her refusal to keep the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals open an extra 20 minutes so that a request to stay an execution could be filed.

The argument boils down to this: the lawyers shouldn’t have waited until 5 o’clock to file their appeal – period, end of story. I responded before, in part, to this...


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