"Farid and Dressler found that giving untrained experts access to seven details about an individual produced a 67 percent accuracy rate. COMPAS, which uses 137 data points, has a 65 percent accuracy rate."
Criminal Legal News
July 20, 2018
Read MoreDefendants are regularly condemned to years, decades, or life in prison for minor infractions because of minimum sentencing statutes. If judges had more discretion in sentencing, then sentences could be more proportional to the crime, more specific to the individual defendant, and minimize the negative impact of minimum sentencing laws without inherently needing those laws repealed.
"Farid and Dressler found that giving untrained experts access to seven details about an individual produced a 67 percent accuracy rate. COMPAS, which uses 137 data points, has a 65 percent accuracy rate."
Criminal Legal News
July 20, 2018
Read More"Jackson, however, does not allow jurors to “speculate” if the evidence was sufficient to support guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. When the prosecutor’s evidence merely invites the jury to speculate on a number of reasonable probabilities — some consistent with guilt, others with innocence — a jury must entertain a reasonable doubt of the defendant’s guilt, the Court said."
Criminal Legal News
July 20, 2018
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