With a Possible Update to the Texas Open Meetings Act, Former Council Members Recall Local Scandal

How a misunderstanding changed Austin politics

"...for a TOMA do-over at the Capitol offers an occasion to reflect on how, or if, the whole affair..."

April 19, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Death Watch: DNA Testing Denied for Rodney Reed

Reed and Pruett strike out. But justice for Duane Buck?

"...for relief, but less than six months later the CCA stayed his 2015 execution due to newly discovered evidence..."

April 21, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Roberson Execution Stayed

Court of Criminal Appeals sends case back to Anderson County

"...A June 8 application for relief filed to the CCA by Office of Capital Writs attorney Gretchen Sween argued..."

June 17, 2016 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

The Science of Injustice

Capital murder case highlights Texas courts' resistance to physical evidence

"...to the courts – the trial court and the CCA as well as federal courts – the import of..."

Aug. 19, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Tightening the Noose on Defendants

Court rulings whittle away Sixth Amendment

"...the Court of Criminal Appeals. In separate rulings, the CCA has tossed a death sentence, concluded that life without..."

Nov. 26, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

New Hearing for Death Row Inmate

Charles Dean Hood heads back to district court for new punishment hearing

"...Although the CCA had previously denied his requests for a new sentencing..."

March 5, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Closing Time? Attorneys Call for Justice's Head

Public cries foul over Keller's killer instincts

"...day to compose and file the appeal with the CCA – Texas' highest criminal appeals court. The court would..."

Oct. 19, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death and the Unpatriotic Act

Among amendments tacked onto newest version of the PATRIOT Act is a section allowing U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to grant legal fast-track for death-penalty appeals in states that have enacted standards for attorney appointments to indigent death row inmates

"...capital appointment, but no one – not even the CCA – does anything to ensure that the attorneys on..."

March 24, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

News Roundup: Council, Kellers, and SSLCs

Council challenges appraisals, while Kellers challenge decision

"...deny relief on the couple’s claims of innocence. The CCA granted relief to the couple, reversing their 1992 sentencing..."

June 1, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Henderson Granted New Trial

CCA gives Travis County defendant a second chance

"...Now the CCA has agreed, deferring to Wisser's determination that the new..."

Dec. 5, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Death Row Inmate Hoping for Supreme Intervention

Original defense attorney called no witnesses and presented no mitigating evidence

"...In his first appeal to the CCA, Harris argued that the state violated his due process..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Officials' Silence Speaks Loudly at Hutto Forum

A forum on the T. Don Hutto immigrant-detention center will go on despite no participation from Hutto supporters

"...cut off the top) signed on with ICE and CCA in 2006 – will include Bob Lib­al, Texas coordinator..."

Sept. 19, 2008 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

A Dose of Integrity for Texas Criminal Justice

The Court of Criminal Appeals has created an Integrity Unit – but can the CCA really be part of the solution when it's so much a part of the problem?

"...is kick-starting the unit "on behalf" of the entire CCA as a "call to action to address the growing..."

June 27, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Honorable Charlie Baird

Judge Charlie Baird is ruffling official feathers at the Travis County Courthouse

"...Yale, who met Baird while he was on the CCA. At the time, Bright was researching and writing about..."

May 30, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Justice Delayed for Yogurt Shop Defendant

Robert Springsteen has been waiting for 110,764,800 seconds for his appeal to be heard

"...to death row, where he's still waiting for the CCA to issue an opinion on his first round of..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

UT students protest the school's contract with Sodexho Marriott, a major stockholder in the world's largest private prison system.

"...the largest shareholder of the Corrections Corporation of America. CCA is the nation's largest provider of corrections and detention..."

June 1, 2001 News Feature by Jennie Kennedy

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Saddle up your reindeer

"...Courthouse Tours Dec. 4, Wharton, cca.whartonchamber.com..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Bobby Moore Will Not Be Executed

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has commuted his sentence

"...1981 for the capital murder of supermarket clerk James McCarble, has been spared execution...."

Nov. 6, 2019 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Rodney Reed Loses Latest Appeals

Longtime death row inmate will challenge the court's ruling

"..."false when given and have since been changed." The CCA said Reed not only failed to prove that these..."

July 5, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Defunding the Paxton Case

Court guts pay for special prosecutors trying AG for fraud

"...reasonable fixed rates or minimum and maximum rates," the CCA majority opinion holds. If they can't get paid, the..."

Nov. 30, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Adam Reposa on Ice

Sentenced to six months in jail for direct contempt, city’s DWI king meets stalemate in state courts

"...Reposa is stuck in a county jail until the CCA decides to hear his case, something he and his..."

Nov. 10, 2017 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: Steven Long Spared Execution

SCOTUS’ ruling in Bobby James Moore case spares inmate’s life, for now

"...March ruling in Moore v. Texas, which vacated the CCA's death sentence of Moore on the grounds of "intellectual..."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Choosing Detention Over Death

Refugees come to the U.S. seeking protection, find detention instead

"...GEO and CCA, the companies that run the Karnes and Dilley detention..."

Dec. 25, 2015 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

Kellers Granted Relief

Court rules with little explanation

"...insight into why the judges who sit on the CCA collectively decided to only grant relief to the pair..."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Appeals Court Stays Rodney Reed's Execution

After new forensic evidence, death row inmate's execution delayed

"...which she was murdered. Five previous appeals to the CCA were denied, however, despite mounting evidence that he may..."

Feb. 23, 2015 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: Competency Hearing Granted for Marcus Druery

State's 15th execution of 2013 set for Nov. 12

"...too ill to be executed. But last week the CCA, the state’s highest criminal court, ruled that the trial..."

Nov. 8, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Dallas D.A. Says Supremes Should Take Jimenez Case

Watkins asking court to decide standard for actual innocence

"...innocent of murder or injury to a child." The CCA denied Jimenez the new trial ordered by Baird...."

Oct. 31, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

DNA Testing Granted in Skinner Case

It took more than a decade, but Skinner wins fight to test evidence

"...row. The argument did not appear to impress the CCA during oral arguments, and court watchers felt that Mitchell's..."

June 8, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

GOP Keeps Grip on High Court

Austin attorney loses bid to break lock

"...everything I could: I worked hard." For sure, the CCA has been an all-but-impossible nut to crack for Dems..."

Nov. 5, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Mission Impossible?

Hampton seeks to break GOP lock on state's highest criminal court

"...death penalty cases than all of the current nine CCA judges combined. That seems to get attention at campaign..."

Oct. 22, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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