Examining Pro-Prosecution Bias in the Judiciary: Unconscious Biases of a Prosecutorial Background by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Legal scholars and practitioners have begun raising concerns that there is a lack of judicial diversity on court benches in America and abroad. While there have been serious efforts to increase …

Tenth Circuit: Plea Not Knowing and Voluntary Where Plea Counsel Materially Misrepresented Defendant’s Right to Impartial Jury Selected Through Racially Nondiscriminatory Means by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that John Miguel Swan’s guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary because …

Review of Prior Research Identifies Three Main Sources of Bias in Jury Decision-Making Processes by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian In our adversarial court systems, a person impaneled on a jury is tasked with a seemingly straight-forward duty: determine the reliability and credibility of trial evidence, deliberate, and render …