I really don't mean to be dismissive but these SCOTUS calls don't do much to stifle or fuel most meaningful cjreform
Important, but w/ CA shunting many prisoners to local jails, not quite as epic as it first seems. Also, NY managed…
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…a big decarceration w/out SCOTUS, based mainly in what DAs in NYC did. That's
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Polemical law review article I want to see: the triviality of crimpro as factor in US mass incarceration
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Crimpro narrowly understood as law, not police & DA practice. Crimpro of course matters but how central?
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remember also issue of racial disparities -- SCOTUS might have more influence there
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Have they in the past in matters of crim justice, for good or for ill?
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not crim pro, but reviving 8A proportionality, e.g. overruling Harmelin, would do real, if limited, good.
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No doubt! But it would be a good thing for lawyers & lawprofs to see w cold clarity where those limits are
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do you mean to tell me law profs have an inflated sense of their own importance in the world? Never!
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that cuts into the reduction by 1/3 so still significant. Fn 20 here http://sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Fewer-Prisoners-Less-Crime-A-Tale-of-Three-States.pdf …
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Thanks for these facts, have been wanting to to the bottom of this question for a while.
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