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