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  • July 6, 2015 at 5:19 pm #27004
    wv
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    I heard this author on NPR today. Usually folks who talk about the Law
    on NPR make me want to vomit, and i stop listening after about thirty seconds.
    NPR’s pundits on the Supreme Court are especially un-insightful. But today,
    i heard a guy who seemed good on theoretical stuff as well as
    real-life, in-court-stuff.

    His book is called: Unfair, the new science of criminal injustice.
    His name is Adam Benforado.

    http://www.npr.org/2015/06/13/413912073/lawyer-argues-that-virtual-trials-would-make-justice-system-more-fair

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23364926-unfair

    http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/how-bias-shapes-juries/395957/

    July 6, 2015 at 6:59 pm #27008
    bnw
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    A virtual trial?

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    July 6, 2015 at 8:29 pm #27011
    wv
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    bnw wrote:

    A virtual trial?

    Seems goofy, and it will never happen, but his reasoning
    is…reasonable:

    “….And why I recommend it is there [are] so many biases that psychologist have uncovered … [that] shouldn’t determine the outcome [of a trial] — what color of skin the attorney representing the accused has or whether he has, you know, a particular inflection. And yet we know that those things matter. It matters how attractive the witness is. Well, that shouldn’t matter. And so I think a move to virtual trials would allow us to control for a lot of the things which are currently skewing outcomes. And I don’t think it’s as radical as it might seem. There are certain constitutional problems related to the confrontation clause [the right to confront your accuser]. … We have already made exceptions in a lot of different areas…”

    July 6, 2015 at 11:49 pm #27016
    bnw
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    How would that work? Trial by transcript?

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    July 7, 2015 at 4:01 pm #27034
    wv
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    bnw wrote:

    How would that work? Trial by transcript?

    You know how those WEE games work — where you move and on the screen
    the image moves with you — i suppose thats how it would work.
    The humans would talk and move, but the Jury would see the IMAGES
    and images would not show any ‘race’ or gender or weight or age etc. Maybe
    the images would look like sexless robots or somethin.
    That way no-one on the jury would know if the witness or lawyer
    was black or white, etc, unless they had to testify about
    their race, etc. I dunno. Thats all i can figure.

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