tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780806945960886534.post9082535858516686007..comments2024-03-28T05:47:54.177+00:00Comments on Philosophical Disquisitions: Understanding Legal Argument (2): Proving Facts in LawJohn Danaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06761686258507859309noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780806945960886534.post-59049027583119455622022-02-16T13:17:47.192+00:002022-02-16T13:17:47.192+00:00Thanks. I comment, at the end, about well-funded p...Thanks. I comment, at the end, about well-funded public adversarial systems being largely better than the privately funded model. <br /><br />I'm not sure what figures you are referring to. I cite 3.5 million as the number of battered women, 4396 as the number of murdered women and 1432 as the number of murdered battered women.John Danaherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06761686258507859309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780806945960886534.post-38133379025138863472022-02-16T12:21:28.512+00:002022-02-16T12:21:28.512+00:00I sometimes wonder if the biggest problem with the...I sometimes wonder if the biggest problem with the judicial system isn't the distaste for mathematical calculation and the lack of base rate evidence available to juries (I presume that, back when the jury system was adopted, jurors would be much more likely to have a grasp of something like relevant base rates).<br /><br />Also, it's probably worth distinguishing the adversarial system from the system of hiring your own lawyer. Nothing stops us (and I strongly support it) from having a system where defense and prosecution lawyers are both given equal funding by the state and are even drawn from the same pool. Indeed, it might be a good idea to have a system where both defense and prosecution attorneys had equal opportunity to order police investigations (maybe the police should even be blinded to who is requesting various further investigations).<br /><br />P.S. I presume the 4000ish number you cited above was the number of *murdered* battered women not the number of battered women (seems way too small for that).TruePathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124043164362758796noreply@blogger.com