Direct Answer Courts across the United States are increasingly deploying legal mechanisms to restrict journalist access to…
When a judge’s spouse leads an organization whose cases regularly appear in that judge’s courtroom, the appearance…
Key Points What It Is Digital court watching is the practice of monitoring and documenting court proceedings…
Predictive sentencing sounds clinical, efficient, maybe even neutral. But once punishment starts leaning on probability models, the…
Appellate intervention is supposed to mean correction. In Barry County, it keeps looking more like a suggestion…
Same system. Same county. Different outcomes that don’t reconcile. Sentencing is supposed to reflect proportionality, consistency, and…
Plea bargaining is often sold as efficiency. The danger starts when that efficiency turns into manipulation, coercion,…
Many thanks to my dear friend Dr. Samantha Hallman for sharing this with me! Lawyers have an…
Michigan’s sentencing guidelines are supposed to create structure. The harder question is who is interpreting that structure,…
When the prosecution controls both the courtroom narrative and the public narrative, the line between advocacy and…
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