Government
Apr. 25, 2013
Politics could be reason for state's challenges to prison cases
Some legal analysts say the expected appeals are less about convincing judges of the merits of the state's arguments than they are about appeasing special interests and staving off a politically unpalatable course of action.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Faced with recent defeats in federal court, state officials are looking to the appellate process as their next hope in the decades-long legal battle over the constitutionality of conditions in California's crowded prisons. But some legal analysts say the appeals - which Gov. Jerry Brown has promised, though not yet filed - are less about convincing judges of the merits of the state's arguments than the...
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