Louisiana Judges Issue Harsher Sentences When the LSU Football Team Loses
A lot of the discussion around this seems to focus on football, but that&#x27;s just the easily-measurable proxy for a bad mood the authors found. Presumably an argument with a spouse, a poker game loss, a parking ticket, or a bad interaction with a coffee clerk would have the same effect. It&#x27;s disheartening that justice is so capricious, but setting sentences through the legislature seems even more fraught. I don&#x27;t have a good solution.