November 16, 2017

A Criticism of the Cicchini and White Studies on the Criminal Burden of Proof Instruction

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The Cicchini and White (CW) studies on Wisconsin's pattern criminal burden of proof jury instruction raise concerns that Wisconsin's...
November 5, 2017

Epistemological Traditionalism, Rationalism, and Paradigm Shifts

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As discussed in detail in my last couple of posts, I believe controlled experiments have cast doubt on Wisconsin's pattern jury ins...
October 30, 2017

Second Study Casts Reasonable Doubt on Wisconsin’s Criminal Burden of Proof Instruction

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The results of a second study has provided further empirical proof that Wisconsin’s pattern criminal burden of proof jury instruction may...
October 24, 2017

Why Wisconsin's Criminal Burden of Proof Instruction Had to Be Changed

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People with even a glancing understanding of our criminal justice system are familiar with the quote of the English jurist William Bla...
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July 4, 2011

The End of Something

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I will be discontinuing regular posts to this blog. I will post intermittently when something moves me. I have written what I...

To Win an Argument or to Find the Truth

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A recent theory of argumentation that has been generating considerable discussion states that the human reason has so many cognitive biases...
June 20, 2011

Psychology and Confessions

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Neuroscientist David Eagleman, in his book Incognito, describes the human brain as a team of rivals in which various parties in the brain ca...