Independence Corrupted: How America's Judges Make Their Decisions

ISBN-13: 9780299320300 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Charles Benjamin Schudson

Spis treści

• Preface: Sacred Words/Crossover Time
• Introduction: Independence and Corruption
• Part One. Judges
• 1 Who’s the Judge?
• 2 Where Judges Are Born: The Prosecutor’s Perspective—from Battered Homes to Nursing Homes
• 3 The Decision-Making Ideal
• Part Two. In Chambers: How America’s Judges Really Make Their Decisions
• 4 The Trial Judge: Birth, Aborted
• State v. Monica Migliorino Miller
• 5 The Appellate Judge: Birth, Premature
• Peterman v. Midwestern National Insurance Company, Special Products, Inc., Frank A. Busalacchi, and Visuals Plus, Inc.
• 6 Standard of Review: Humility, and the Division of Labor
• 7 The Trial Judge: Life, and a Lost Teenager
• In the Interest of S.W., a child under eighteen years of age
• 8 The Appellate Judge: Life, and a Sex Predator
• State v. Shawn Schulpius
• 9 The Trial Judge: Death, and a Cherished Child
• State v. Anthony McClain
• 10 The Appellate Judge: Death, and Three Widows
• Wischer v. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of America, Inc.
• 11 The Trial Judge: Religion, and White Supremacists
• State v. Hollin Lange and Patrick O’Malley
• 12 The Appellate Judge: Politics, “On the Point”
• State v. L. C. Clay
• 13 Indigestion (and Other Determinants)
• Part Three. America’s Judiciary in the New Age of Vanishing Independence
• 14 Judicial Campaigns: Declarations and Contributions
• 15 Begging the Question: Elective or Appointive
• Afterword
• Fathers and Grandfathers
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index