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30 Oct 2013, 9:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But under the CCA holding, they get to do it until some federal court calls them on it. [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 11:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
” The CCA's ruling suggested that the victim's mother - who Colloff noted received a lenient plea deal in exchange for her testimony against Velez, though his lawyers did not disclose that to the jury - may have been the real culprit: "Family members and neighbors also testified at the habeas hearing that they witnessed the victim's mother neglecting and abusing him and his siblings in the months and weeks before his death. during tht time they also observed that he displayed… [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 8:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In essence, they said defendants deserved a new trial in every case where Salvador analyzed evidence.So why was Leroy Coty's case now before the court when the CCA had so recently decided the issue? [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 11:15 am by Tracey Christofferson
    On August 30, 2013, the IRS reissued advice on proper employment tax reporting on settlements in Chief Counsel Advice (CCA) Memorandum 20133501F. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 3:50 am
The registration will be still available today (to cca. 14:00-15:00) so that the security will have some time to make the badges ready. [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 5:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a few tidbits that caught my eye before Grits must leave town today for work:Auditor critiques state LEO licensing agencyThe state auditor has produced a new report on the Texas Commission of Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education. [read post]
6 Oct 2013, 1:54 pm by Michael M. O'Hear
The CCA fosters local-level collaboration in designing and administering community corrections, which likely gives locally based and accountable judges a greater sense of confidence in the probation option. [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 5:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But under the CCA holding, they get to do it until some federal court calls them on it. [read post]
30 Sep 2013, 9:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Two issues jump out at Grits on this one: First, who is surprised that the CCA chose to ignore federal precedents in order to sustain Bell's drug conviction? [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 2:07 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Few of the thousands of habeas writs filed annually get local TV news coverage when they're filed, but Ex Parte Neal H. [read post]
22 Aug 2013, 5:53 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
What made the Robbins decision even more caustic was that 18 months later, an almost identical CCA majority granted a new trial to Cathy Henderson, sentenced to death for the 1994 capital murder of an infant in Travis County, because the state’s medical expert re-evaluated his opinion as to the cause and manner of death based on a change in the underlying science.Given that the factual distinction between Robbins and Henderson was one without a meaningful difference — especially… [read post]
21 Jul 2013, 8:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A lot would depend on the posture of whichever case made it before the court, not to mention who replaces three erstwhile moderates on the CCA who're leaving the bench next year. [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 12:53 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
A faction of the hacktivist group released a report this morning concluding that the publicly traded prison operator Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is not an efficient, profitable free-market solution -- but a bad investment for shareholders. [read post]
9 Jul 2013, 4:17 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
An interesting facet to this story is that CCA used to actually operate as a REIT between 1997 and 2000. [read post]
9 Jul 2013, 8:04 am by Rekha Arulanantham
Based on a state-by-state examination of these reforms, combined with a close look at CCA's falling occupancy rates and decreased spending on new construction, Anonymous identifies ongoing criminal justice reforms as posing a far more serious risk to CCA's business model than CCA's management is willing to admit. [read post]
30 Jun 2013, 6:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The question posed to the parties asks not how to interpret the law, which the CCA has already done in 18 prior, related cases, but what policy the CCA judges should prefer and whether those policy preferences should outweigh the court's prior legal interpretations. [read post]
21 Jun 2013, 1:36 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Which state announced a decision to end its contract with private prison company CCA to run the state's largest prison? [read post]