Sacrifice

About this Episode

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