POLI 4023 Chapter : Judicial Behavior
Document Summary
Politics have an effect: look at the law and see how it actually functions, rejected the legal model and tried to understand judges" behavior differently, gibson is arguing that judges have attitudes, and these attitudes affect their decisions. Fact freedom : liberal to conservative scale, civil rights or liberties, defense of marriage act (doma) Hobby lobby says no because they are a christian company. February 20, 2014: cultural backgrounds, race, ethnicity, gender, the country in which we are born/live. Judges enjoy fact freedom : the ability to selectively sift the facts. Fact freedom : baldus study examined over 2,000 murder cases in 1970s in georgia. Found that defendants charged with killing white victims were 4. 3 times more likely to receive a death sentence as defendants charged with killing blacks: pretty capricious. Doesn"t matter the crime as much as the race of the person killed: likelihood of the accused receiving the death penalty from 1972 in 1983 in georgia:
