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Lawyer As Soothsayer: Exploring The Important Role Of Outcome Prediction In The Practice Of Law, Mark K. Osbeck
Lawyer As Soothsayer: Exploring The Important Role Of Outcome Prediction In The Practice Of Law, Mark K. Osbeck
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Outcome prediction has always been an important part of practicing law. Clients rely heavily on their attorneys to provide accurate assessments of the potential legal consequences they face when making important decisions (such as whether to accept a plea bargain, or risk a conviction on a much more serious offense at trial). And yet, notwithstanding its enormous importance to the practice of law (and notwithstanding the handsome legal fees it commands), outcome prediction in the law remains a very imprecise endeavor. The reason for this inaccuracy is that the three principal tools lawyers have traditionally relied on to facilitate outcome …
The Pope And The Capital Juror, Aliza Plener Cover
The Pope And The Capital Juror, Aliza Plener Cover
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In a significant change to Catholic Church doctrine, Pope Francis recently declared that capital punishment is impermissible under all circumstances. Counterintuitively, the Pope’s pronouncement might make capital punishment less popular but more prevalent in the United States. This Essay anticipates this possible dynamic and, in so doing, explores how “death qualification” of capital juries can insulate the administration of the death penalty when community morality evolves away from capital punishment.
Criminal Justice, Inc., John Rappaport
Comment On 'Judicial Compensation And Performance', J.J. Prescott
Comment On 'Judicial Compensation And Performance', J.J. Prescott
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The most significant challenges to better understanding judicial behavior are lack of data and the absence of plausible exogenous variation in judicial environments. The random assignment of judges to cases has admittedly been helpful in gaining traction on the effects of judicial decisions (e.g., Dobbie, Goldin, and Yang 2018). Yet developing a full empirical account of “what judges maximize” (Posner 1993) would require a setting in which judges are randomly subjected to a wide variety of (real-world) environments with different costs, constraints, and rewards. This prospect remains pie in the sky, but that does not mean that we have not …
Divine Justice And The Library Of Babel: Or, Was Al Capone Really Punished For Tax Evasion?, Gabriel Mendlow
Divine Justice And The Library Of Babel: Or, Was Al Capone Really Punished For Tax Evasion?, Gabriel Mendlow
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A criminal defendant enjoys an array of legal rights. These include the right not to be punished for an offense unless charged, tried, and proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; the right not to be punished disproportionately; and the right not to be punished for the same offense more than once. I contend that the design of our criminal legal system imperils these rights in ways few observers appreciate. Because criminal codes describe misconduct imprecisely and prohibit more misconduct than any legislature actually aspires to punish, prosecutors decide which violations of the code merit punishment, and judges decide how much …
Fourth Amendment Constraints On The Technological Monitoring Of Convicted Sex Offenders, Ben A. Mcjunkin, J. J. Prescott
Fourth Amendment Constraints On The Technological Monitoring Of Convicted Sex Offenders, Ben A. Mcjunkin, J. J. Prescott
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More than forty U.S. states currently track at least some of their convicted sex offenders using GPS devices. Many offenders will be monitored for life. The burdens and expense of living indefinitely under constant technological monitoring have been well documented, but most commentators have assumed that these burdens were of no constitutional moment because states have characterized such surveillance as ‘‘civil’’ in character—and courts have seemed to agree. In 2015, however, the Supreme Court decided in Grady v. North Carolina that attaching a GPS monitoring device to a person was a Fourth Amendment search, notwithstanding the ostensibly civil character of …
Outcome Prediction In The Practice Of Law, Mark K. Osbeck, Michael Gilliland
Outcome Prediction In The Practice Of Law, Mark K. Osbeck, Michael Gilliland
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Business forecasters typically use time-series models to predict future demands, the forecasts informing management decision making and guiding organizational planning. But this type of forecasting is merely a subset of the broader field of predictive analytics, models used by data scientists in all manner of applications, including credit approvals, fraud detection, product-purchase and music-listening recommendations, and even the real-time decisions made by self-driving vehicles. The practice of law requires decisions that must be based on predictions of future legal outcomes, and data scientists are now developing forecasting methods to support the process. In this article, Mark Osbeck and Mike Gilliland …
Why Is It Wrong To Punish Thought?, Gabriel S. Mendlow
Why Is It Wrong To Punish Thought?, Gabriel S. Mendlow
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It’s a venerable maxim of criminal jurisprudence that the state must never punish people for their mere thoughts—for their beliefs, desires, fantasies, and unexecuted intentions. This maxim is all but unquestioned, yet its true justification is something of a mystery. In this Essay, I argue that each of the prevailing justifications is deficient, and I conclude by proposing a novel one. The proposed justification captures the widely shared intuition that punishing a person for her mere thoughts isn’t simply disfavored by the balance of reasons but is morally wrongful in itself, an intrinsic (i.e., consequence-independent) injustice to the person punished. …
Implicit Bias's Failure, Samuel Bagenstos
Implicit Bias's Failure, Samuel Bagenstos
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The 2016 presidential election was a coming-out party of sorts for the concept of implicit bias-and not necessarily in a good way. In answering a question about race relations and the police during the vice-presidential debate, Mike Pence introduced the topic. Offering his explanation for why the Fraternal Order of Police had endorsed the Trump-Pence ticket, Pence said:
Legal Innocence And Federal Habeas, Leah Litman
Legal Innocence And Federal Habeas, Leah Litman
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Although it has long been thought that innocence should matter in federal habeas corpus proceedings, innocence scholarship has focused almost exclusively on claims of factual innocence-the kind of innocence that occurs when new evidence reveals that the defendant did not commit the offense for which he was convicted. The literature has largely overlooked cases where a defendant was convicted or sentenced under a statute that is unconstitutional, or a statute that does not apply to the defendant. The Supreme Court, however, has recently begun to recognize these cases as kinds of innocence and it has grounded its concern for them …
Errors In Misdemeanor Adjudication, Samuel R. Gross
Errors In Misdemeanor Adjudication, Samuel R. Gross
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Millions of defendants are convicted of misdemeanors in the United States each year but almost none obtain exonerations, primarily because ordinarily exoneration is far too costly and time consuming to pursue for anything less than years of imprisonment. The National Registry of Exonerations lists all known exonerations in the United States since 1989 — 2,145 cases, as of the end of 2017; only 85 are misdemeanors, 4%. In all but one of these misdemeanor exonerations the defendants were convicted of crimes that never happened; by comparison, more than three-quarters of felony exonerees were convicted of actual crimes that other people …
Legal Or Political Checks On Apex Criminality: An Essay On Constitutional Design, Aziz Huq
Legal Or Political Checks On Apex Criminality: An Essay On Constitutional Design, Aziz Huq
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Apparent Fault, Aziz Huq, Genevieve Lakier
Why The Burger Court Mattered (Reviewing The Burger Court And The Rise Of The Judicial Right By Michael J. Graetz And Linda Greenhouse), David A. Strauss
Why The Burger Court Mattered (Reviewing The Burger Court And The Rise Of The Judicial Right By Michael J. Graetz And Linda Greenhouse), David A. Strauss
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No abstract provided.
Police Violence In The Wire, Jonathan Masur, Richard H. Mcadams
Police Violence In The Wire, Jonathan Masur, Richard H. Mcadams
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What Is Discriminatory Intent?, Aziz Huq
A Consumer’S Guide To Sentencing Reform: Reflections On Zimring’S Cautionary Tale, Richard Frase
A Consumer’S Guide To Sentencing Reform: Reflections On Zimring’S Cautionary Tale, Richard Frase
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Judicial Elections In The 2010s, Herbert M. Kritzer
Managing Terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Colm Campbell
Punishment And Human Dignity: Sentencing Principles For Twenty-First-Century America, Michael Tonry
Punishment And Human Dignity: Sentencing Principles For Twenty-First-Century America, Michael Tonry
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Prior Record Enhancements At Sentencing: Unsettled Justifications And Unsettling Consequences, Richard Frase, Kelly Lyn Mitchell, Rhys Hester Hester, Julian V. Roberts
Prior Record Enhancements At Sentencing: Unsettled Justifications And Unsettling Consequences, Richard Frase, Kelly Lyn Mitchell, Rhys Hester Hester, Julian V. Roberts
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Punishing Kids In Juvenile And Criminal Court, Barry Feld
Punishing Kids In Juvenile And Criminal Court, Barry Feld
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Understanding “Sanctuary Cities”, Linus Chan, Juliet P. Stumpf, Christopher N. Lasch, Ingrid V. Eagly
Understanding “Sanctuary Cities”, Linus Chan, Juliet P. Stumpf, Christopher N. Lasch, Ingrid V. Eagly
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Modularity In Cross-Border Insolvency, Andrew B. Dawson
Modularity In Cross-Border Insolvency, Andrew B. Dawson
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The Pragmatist Tradition: Lessons For Legal Theorists, Susan Haack
The Pragmatist Tradition: Lessons For Legal Theorists, Susan Haack
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Democratizing Proof: Pooling Public And Police Body-Camera Videos, Mary D. Fan
Democratizing Proof: Pooling Public And Police Body-Camera Videos, Mary D. Fan
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There are two cultural revolutions in recording the police. From the vantage of police departments, there is the rapidly spreading uptake of police-worn body cameras. On the public side, community members are increasingly using their cell phone cameras to record the police. Together, these dual recording revolutions are generating important new questions and possibilities regarding the balance of power in producing proof and illuminating contested encounters. This Essay is about how pooling police body camera and public videos can address three emerging challenges in the police recording revolution. The first challenge is the controversy over failures to record contested encounters …
Arbiters Of Decency: A Study Of Legislators' Eighth Amendment Role, Aliza Plener Cover
Arbiters Of Decency: A Study Of Legislators' Eighth Amendment Role, Aliza Plener Cover
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Within Eighth Amendment doctrine, legislators are arbiters of contemporary values. The United States Supreme Court looks closely to state and federal death penalty legislation to determine whether a given punishment is out of keeping with “evolving standards of decency.” Those who draft, debate, and vote on death penalty laws thus participate in both ordinary and higher lawmaking. This Article investigates this dual role.
We coded and aggregated information about every floor statement made in the legislative debates preceding the recent passage of bills abolishing the death penalty in Connecticut, Illinois, and Nebraska. We categorized all statements according to their position …
The Infinite Power Of Grammar, Patrick Barry
The Infinite Power Of Grammar, Patrick Barry
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Good lawyers know that effective advocacy requires more than just choosing the right words; it also requires choosing the right word order. The formal term for this choice is “syntax.” But perhaps a better description comes from a 1976 essay by Joan Didion called “Why I Write.”
In it, Didion draws a helpful parallel between the arrangement of a photograph and the arrangement of a sentence. “To shift the structure of a sentence,” she notes, “alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of the camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.” Didion refers …
Gideon Incarcerated: Access To Counsel In Pretrial Detention, Johanna Kalb
Gideon Incarcerated: Access To Counsel In Pretrial Detention, Johanna Kalb
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Reassessing American Democracy: The Enduring Challenge Of Racial Exclusion, Johanna Kalb
Reassessing American Democracy: The Enduring Challenge Of Racial Exclusion, Johanna Kalb
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No abstract provided.