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I think lawyers are subject to the biases, as well. Defense lawyers probably work harder for attractive people, prosecutors are probably less cutthroat. It's
by joncrane 6y ago
I think lawyers are subject to the biases, as well. Defense lawyers probably work harder for attractive people, prosecutors are probably less cutthroat. It's an intractable problem.
- BbzzbB 6y agoBut judge and juree make the final decisions, and the lawyer issues run much deeper in terms of inequalities. I don't think lawyer perception of client attractiveness is the core issue in this case, they'll (naturally) mostly care about their compensation. Prosecutors having a bias plays into the other -isms as well, perhaps a blinding system could be helpful as well, although harder to enforce.
- joncrane 6y agoAren't the vast majority of people in the US represented by public defenders? Public defenders who make salary, and are extremely overworked and often default to some subconscious rubic for how to allocate their efforts....