Ken Strutin

September 24, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Ken Strutin writes: Until a generation ago, wrongful conviction was perceived as an oddity in the well-oiled machinery of justice. But 30 years of exonerations, forensic reforms and wrongful conviction statistics have redrawn the landscape, which now includes computerized risk assessment.

By Ken Strutin

6 minute read

July 23, 2018 | New York Law Journal

In his Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin writes: The algorithms of "risk and needs assessment" are the new bedrock of sentencing and parole; their accuracy, fairness and quality, the unpronounced measures of justice. Problems arise when human prejudices, coding and classification of people, and selection bias take refuge behind the inscrutability of computer thinking.

By Ken Strutin

2 minute read

May 14, 2018 | New York Law Journal

In his Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin writes: Now that lawyers have been upgraded by technology, the right to counsel needs upgrading as well.

By Ken Strutin

6 minute read

March 26, 2018 | New York Law Journal

In his Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin writes: Lifespans encapsulated by incarceration cancel the possibility of parole, extinguish life in society, and hasten death in custody. Moreover, misperceptions of mortality's measures lengthen and intensify sentences beyond their intention.

By Ken Strutin

6 minute read

January 22, 2018 | New York Law Journal

In his Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin writes: Artificial intelligence and information networks are the toolbox of contemporary legal practice, but not for all. Fettered in paper prisons, pro se inmates are without counsel, computers or connectivity.

By Ken Strutin

6 minute read

November 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal

In his Technology Today: Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin writes: Computational technology exists that can reveal to the criminal justice system the disabling conditions of a population under chronic psychological assault.

By Ken Strutin

6 minute read

September 25, 2017 | New York Law Journal

In his Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin writes: Supercomputers can be groomed to find meaningful connections between the unstructured data of conviction and the lessons of exoneration. Given that these machines already exist, the only question is why they haven't been turned on?

By Ken Strutin

5 minute read

July 26, 2017 | New York Law Journal

In his Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin writes: Without membership in the Information Society, people become irrelevant, their search for knowledge hopeless.

By Ken Strutin

11 minute read

May 15, 2017 | New York Law Journal

In his Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin writes: Lawyers are surrounded by automation, but not the incarcerated. An Information Curtain lies between the far-points of actual innocence and artificial intelligence, making access to the courts a technology issue.

By Ken Strutin

10 minute read

March 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal

In his Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin discusses the report of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), writing: The PCAST Report, and its Jan. 6, 2017 Addendum, aimed to move courtroom forensics from subjective human judgments, errors and biases to objective, empirically validated evidence. Yet, without a place to be heard, the momentum of science comes to halt.

By Ken Strutin

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