Thursday, August 25, 2022

People v. Ramirez (Cal. Supreme Ct. - Aug. 25, 2022)

There are a ton of wonderful things about being a law professor; far too many to list here. But one of the downsides is the obligation (sorta) to write 80-page law review articles that few people will ever read and that affect the world -- if at all -- only marginally. Sayeth me, anyway.

We see the judicial equivalent of this in today's opinion by Justice Corrigan: a 236-page (!) missive that few people will ever slog through and that affirms the imposition of a death penalty that'll never actually be applied anyway for murders that occurred a quarter century ago.

Someone's gotta do it, perhaps. But, personally, not the preferred way to devote a substantial portion of one's work life.