After beginning with, let’s face it, nonsense, we respond to listener feedback (beginning at 8:30) on, among other topics, speed traps, Serial, and Judge Edwards’ critique of legal scholarship. We wind up discussing reasonable doubt and probability (beginning at about 30:00).
This show’s links:
- Judge John Hodgman
- Episode 18: Oral Argument (with Tom Goldstein), featuring Josh Stein’s paper
- Richard Stallman’s info packet
- Episode 44: Serial
- Natasha Vargas-Cooper, Jay, Key Witness from “Serial” Tells His Story for First Time, parts one, two, and three
- Slate’s Serial Spoiler Special podcast discussing the Jay interviews
- Ezra Klein, Serial Revisited
- Susan Simpson’s The View from LL2 blog
- Rene Stutzman, Lawsuits by Drivers Ticketed for Flashing Headlights Produce Change, No Money
- Episode 43: Some Stuff I Like and Some Stuff I Don’t, featuring some speed trap discussion and our discussion of Judge Edwards’ critique of legal scholarship
- Gross, O’Brien, Hu, and Kennedy, Rate of False Conviction of Criminal Defendants Who are Sentenced to Death
- Christian’s silly wrongful conviction calculator, which you can copy and paste into the wonderful Calca app
- All about the Innocence Project
- Kevin Drum, America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead
- Dragonslayer, the 1981 film
- The Flynn effect
- Philosophy Bites: Hugh Mellor on Probability, a fascinating episode of a great series of brief discussions on philosophy