Independence Corrupted

How America's Judges Make Their Decisions
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-299-32030-0
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

With experience as both a trial and appellate judge, Charles Benjamin Schudson knows the burdens on judges. With engaging candor, he takes readers behind the bench to probe judicial minds analyzing actual trials and sentencings—of abortion protesters, murderers, sex predators, white supremacists, and others. He takes us into chambers to hear judges forging appellate decisions about life and death, multimillion-dollar damages, and priceless civil rights. And, most significantly, he exposes the financial, political, personal, and professional pressures that threaten judicial ethics and independence.

As political attacks on judges increase, Schudson calls for reforms to protect judicial independence and for vigilance to ensure justice for all. Independence Corrupted is invaluable for students and scholars, lawyers and judges, and all citizens concerned about the future of America's courts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schudson, Charles Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Allgemeines Prozessrecht, Kostenrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Benjamin Schudson is a former trial and appellate judge, law professor, and Fulbright scholar. As an expert on the American judicial system, he has appeared on PBS, NPR, and Oprah and before the National Association of State Judicial Educators, the United States Conference of Mayors, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and many law schools. He is the president of Keynote Seminars and the coauthor of the book On Trial: America's Courts and Their Treatment of Sexually Abused Children.