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20 Jun 2011, 4:16 am
While I was out on vacation a little over a week ago, Texas' latest Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, Elsa Alcala, was invested as the court's ninth member, replacing Charles Holcolmb who announced his retirement last year. [read post]
18 Mar 2019, 7:19 am
Former Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Elsa Alcala was our special guest, focusing on junk forensic science and the death penalty.Here's what's on this month's show:Opening RiffWould permanently shifting to Daylight Savings Time reduce crime? [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 1:02 pm
Rick Perry appointed Elsa Alcala of Houston to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for a term to expire at the next general election. [read post]
28 Jun 2016, 5:55 am
To Alcala, this creates a Sixth Amendment crisis. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 3:13 pm
On her Twitter feed, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Elsa Alcala notes that she wrote dissenting opinions in two of the six petitions being considered in conference at SCOTUS today - Moore v. [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 2:28 am
The times they are a-changin' in GOPprimarylandia.Which brings us to the differences between Elsa Alcala and Sonia Sotomayor, two Latina judges from opposite ends of the political spectrum who both have passionately criticized unfairness and inequity in the justice system. [read post]
18 Apr 2016, 8:54 am
Texas has done such a poor job of providing recourse to indigent defendants with ineffective trial attorneys, Judge Elsa Alcala observed in a recent dissent to the denial of a habeas corpus writ, that the federal courts have begun allowing state prisoners to bypass state courts entirely, filing ineffective assistance claims in federal habeas writs without state courts having to rule on them. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 7:25 am
His coverage opened:In an unusually blunt condemnation, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Elsa Alcala rebuked her court Wednesday for endangering the rights of non-English speakers and for being “a stumbling block in the path toward a better criminal-justice system. [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 1:14 pm
"But Judge Elsa Alcala - the new kid on the block - wrote a rather stinging opinion that shows how tepid and moderate even the conservative bloc on the CCA has become. [read post]
22 Oct 2011, 3:42 am
" Readers may recall the piece he's discussing analyzed notable criminal opinions authored by rookie Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Elsa Alacala while she was an appellate judge on the First Court of Appeals in Houston. [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 10:19 am
See coverage from the SA Express-News, the majority opinion by Judge David Newell and a concurrence from Elsa Alcala. [read post]
16 May 2014, 8:06 am
" I suppose Alcala is saying defense counsel may have been ineffective in not asking for the information, even though they didn't know it existed. [read post]
26 Nov 2016, 6:17 am
Thanksgiving is over, but Grits is grateful for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Elsa Alcala, without whom I wouldn't have been aware of this major problem with the court's habeas corpus procedures.In an opinion released this week, Alcala pulled back the curtain on the court's internal policies to reveal how most habeas writs are decided by a single judge, in her opinion in contradiction to requirements in Texas' Constitution and statutes. [read post]
16 Oct 2016, 5:58 am
Rick Perry paid his lawyers upwards of $2 million to defend him against ultimately-dismissed non-capital felony charges, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals thinks a trial judge was reasonable in determining $48,000 was too much to pay the second chair in a capital-murder case resulting in a life-without-parole sentence.In yet another opinion "tinged with despair," Judge Elsa Alcala's dissent, joined by Judge Larry Meyers, aptly explains how ridiculous this… [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 3:43 pm
" Notably, one of Texas' most distinguished jurists, Elsa Alcala is voting with her feet, leaving the Court of Criminal Appeals in large part because the election system is broken, as she told the Texas Tribune:“Either [people] don’t vote in the race, or they vote based on familiar-sounding names,” Alcala said. [read post]
27 Nov 2018, 12:30 pm
Surely that should have been enough time to implement some sort of Plan B to begin recording again.Shoplifter acting alone can't commit organized crimeJudge Elsa Alcala recently prevailed on the rest of the court to declare that a single episode of solo shoplifting, in which the defendant acted by herself and not in concert with others, did not qualify for enhancement for punishment as "organized retail theft. [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 7:15 am
., founder of the MABATx Foundation and partner in Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Friend in Houston.Now in its ninth year, the luncheon will honor community pioneers who demonstrate the ideals of the foundation, including Michael and David Cordúa of Cordúa Restaurants (Outstanding Service as Entrepreneurs); Daniel Velasco, marketing manager of the Houston Texans (Outstanding Service in the Media); Harris County Sheriff Deputies (Outstanding Service as Public… [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 8:38 am
Now in its ninth year, the luncheon will honor community pioneers who demonstrate the ideals of the foundation, including Michael and David Cordúa of Cordúa Restaurants (Outstanding Service as Entrepreneurs); Daniel Velasco, marketing manager of the Houston Texans (Outstanding Service in the Media); Harris County Sheriff Deputies (Outstanding Service as Public Servants); and Judge Elsa Alcala of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (Outstanding… [read post]
4 Jul 2016, 7:19 am
Thanks Derek, for taking time to chat.This Grits item comparing Judge Elsa Alcala to a "black-robed, Latina John the Baptist" got picked up by the Marshall Project's daily email and got a lot of attention. [read post]
5 Mar 2018, 7:38 am
And depending on the outcome of the race to replace Judge Elsa Alcala, that projected vote count could change. [read post]
