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Apprendi's Limits, R. Craig Green
Apprendi's Limits, R. Craig Green
University of Richmond Law Review
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How Panels Affect Judges: Evidence From United States District Courts, Ahmed E. Taha
How Panels Affect Judges: Evidence From United States District Courts, Ahmed E. Taha
University of Richmond Law Review
Recent research has shown that judges on panels decide cases differently than they do individually. Understanding these panel effects is essential to understanding and predicting judicial behavior. This Article uses a unique naturalexperiment, and interviewsof United States district court judges who participatedin this ex-periment, to empirically investigate panel effects. Specifically, in fourteen district courts the judges chose to sit in an en banc panelto decide the constitutionalityof the FederalSentencing Guide- lines; in fifty-three other districts, the judges decided the issue in- dividually instead. This Article compares the decisions and the characteristicsof these districts to study how panels affect judicialdecision making …