Ex Parte Acly

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• recognizing that good time credit does not apply to coercive civil contempt orders
• holding that those punished by criminal contempt are allowed to earn good-time credit
• noting that “good time” credit does not apply to coercive civil contempt orders
• discussing TEX . REV . CIV . STAT . art. 5118a (repealed) (codified at TEX . CODE CRIM . PROC. ANN . art. 42.032)
• “In addressing [appellant’s] equal protection claim, we find no rational basis for denying him the same opportunity to earn a sentence commutation as other county jail inmates.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).