Robert MacCoun Reacts to New Findings of Judicial Bias

Nature News, April 11, 2011 by Zoë Corbyn
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110411/full/news.2011.227.html

“It is hardly the first empirical demonstration of ‘extra-evidentiary bias’ in judges’ decisions, but it is a particularly striking one because the biasing factor is seemingly innocuous and so patently irrelevant to the case at hand,” says Robert MacCoun, who studies law and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley.