Random emotional shocks to judges produce arbitrary punishment decisions.

Evidence

Finally, research shows that judicial decisions are impacted by random events that may trigger emotional shocks or irritability for judges, which in turn produce arbitrary and capricious implementation of punishment. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 782

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Recourse to random chance seeks a justice immune to human will. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 576