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Significant Statistics: The Unwitting Policy Making Of Mathematically Ignorant Judges, Michael I. Meyerson, William Meyerson
Significant Statistics: The Unwitting Policy Making Of Mathematically Ignorant Judges, Michael I. Meyerson, William Meyerson
All Faculty Scholarship
This article will explore several areas in which judges, hampered by their mathematical ignorance, have permitted numerical analysis to subvert the goals of our legal system. In Part II, I will examine the perversion of the presumption of innocence in paternity cases, where courts make the counter-factual assumption that regardless of the evidence, prior to DNA testing, a suspect has a 50/50 chance of being the father. In Part III, I will explore the unnecessary injection of race into trials involving the statistics of DNA matching, even when race is entirely irrelevant to the particular case. Next, in Part IV, …
Essay: Deciphering Risk: Sex Offender Statutes And Moral Panic In A Risk Society, Bela August Walker
Essay: Deciphering Risk: Sex Offender Statutes And Moral Panic In A Risk Society, Bela August Walker
University of Baltimore Law Review
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"Substantially Limited:" The Reproductive Rights Of Women Living With Hiv/Aids, Lisa M. Keels
"Substantially Limited:" The Reproductive Rights Of Women Living With Hiv/Aids, Lisa M. Keels
University of Baltimore Law Review
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