Scrutinize.org, New York’s judicial decision tracker, is expanding. Its founder wants voters to take notice.
Scrutinize.org, a platform tracking New York judicial decisions, is expanding. Founded by former Bronx public defender Oded Oren, the tool analyzes judicial patterns such as sentencing and engagement with legal arguments. The project aims to provide voters with data-driven insights into judge performance previously accessible primarily to legal practitioners.
When Oded Oren was working as a public defender in the Bronx, he began to notice patterns in the behavior of judges he appeared before — such as which ones carefully engage with legal arguments or impose harsher sentences. That information, he told amNewYork Law, gradually accumulates for practitioners, expanding among circles of colleagues and...
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