Judgment by failure to appear

Reducing Courts’ Failure-to-Appear Rate by Written Reminders

This article examines the effectiveness of using different kinds of written reminders to reduce misdemeanor defendants’ failure-to-appear (FTA) rates. A subset of defendants was surveyed after their scheduled court date to assess their perceptions of procedural justice and trust and confidence in the courts. Reminders reduced FTA overall, and more substantive reminders (e.g., with information o...

Reducing Failure to Appear in Nebraska: A Field Study

effect of rehearing and objection to judgment by a third party on execution of judgment

civil procedure code in articles 424 and 437 has laid down deferenteffects for rehearing and objection to judgment by a third party aboutexecution of judgment. on base of these articles effect of rehearing isstronger, so with rendering of writ of acceptance of rehearing, execution ofjudgment stops, except about condemnation connected with property, whenobtaining of security with compensation is...

Using Regression Kernels to Forecast A Failure to Appear in Court

Forecasts of prospective criminal behavior have long been an important feature of many criminal justice decisions. There is now substantial evidence that machine learning procedures will classify and forecast at least as well, and typically better, than logistic regression, which has to date dominated conventional practice. However, machine learning procedures are adaptive. They “learn” inducti...

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Contextualism is relativism tamed. Relativism about truth is usually motivated by the idea of no-fault disagreement. Imagine two parties: one (she) says ‘P’; the other (he) says ‘Not P’. Apparently, if P then ‘P’ is true and ‘Not P’ false, so she is right and he is wrong; if not P then ‘P’ is false and ‘Not P’ true, so he is right and she is wrong. In both cases, there is an asymmetry between t...