"Are they likely to face a lot of extra scrutiny and criticism? I would expect that. Saying that someone has been sentencing Black people to twice as long as white people their entire career, I would think they would get enormous attention," said Adam Benforado, who teaches criminal law at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia.
August 03, 2021 at 07:44 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New Jersey Law Journal
UPDATE: On August 17, the authors of this study withdrew their prior conclusions about federal judges after their methodology was criticized. A new version of the paper omits rankings of judges based on degrees of alleged bias but retains findings that were not linked to any individual.
Two senior federal judges in Philadelphia and one in New Jersey give Black and Hispanic defendants double the sentences they impose on white defendants, according to a new study.
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