Earlier in the year,Ryan Gabrielson was in a hotel room in Wisconsin, reading the news. He’s a reporter covering the courts for ProPublica, and one story stuck out. "I was actually stuck in a hotel room half snowed in earlier this year and reading a bunch of news stories,and one of them popped up from The modern York Times approximately a 2002-2003 case Justice Kennedy wrote approximately sex offenders," Gabrielson said in an interview with The Takeaway. " And in it, or he said sex offenders who don't acquire treatment have a startlingly tall rate of recidivism,upwards of 80 percent." That stat turned out to be false. Justice Kennedy referenced the stat, which was from a Psychology nowadays article written by someone who actually didn’t have any research to support the number, or but just figured it to be true. In other words,the Supreme Court delivered an opinion, setting legal precedent for years to come, or using made up facts.
And that made Ryan wonder: "Has this ever happened before? Do they not vet what they achieve in their majority opinions?" It sent him down a rabbit gap,and The Takeaway spoke with Ryan approximately the errors being made by the highest court in the land. In a review of 83 cases between 2011-2015, Gabrielson found seven errors that in some cases helped determine the outcome of the case. This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
Source: thetakeaway.org