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Judges For Sale: The Effect Of Campaign Contributions On State Criminal Courts, Arturo Romero Yáñez, Neel U. Sukhatme
Judges For Sale: The Effect Of Campaign Contributions On State Criminal Courts, Arturo Romero Yáñez, Neel U. Sukhatme
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Do campaign contributions impact democratic processes? Using donation data from Texas, we show that criminal defense attorneys who contribute to a district judge’s electoral campaign are preferentially assigned by that judge to indigent defense cases, i.e., public contracts in which the state pays private attorneys to represent poor defendants.
We estimate that attorney donors receive twice as many cases as non-donors during the month of their campaign contribution. Nearly two-thirds of this increase is explained by the contribution itself, with the remainder attributable to shared preferences within attorney-judge pairs, such as those based on professional, ideological, political, or personal ties. …
Videoconference Technology And The Confrontation Clause, Russell Kostelak
Videoconference Technology And The Confrontation Clause, Russell Kostelak
Cornell Law School J.D. Student Research Papers
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The Military Commissions Act, Coerced Confessions, And The Role Of The Courts, Peter Margulies
The Military Commissions Act, Coerced Confessions, And The Role Of The Courts, Peter Margulies
Law Faculty Scholarship
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