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Valerie Hans

@jurygirl.bsky.social

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Cornell Law School professor working on torts, psychology & law, jury decision-making. Fan of Eagles, Steelers & Niners, which makes some games difficult.

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Valerie Hans is an American legal scholar and psychologist. She is the Charles F. Rechlin Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and has been the editor of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science. Trained as a social scientist, her major areas of study are the jury system, jury reform, and the application of social science to law. .. more

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 11h

Bullied is right! Nightmare for us Eagles fans. 🦅

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 11h

Excellent news! There are so many problems with this conviction. It's good that the execution has been blocked and the case sent back to the trial court.

Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 11h

In Death Penalty news:

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/r...

Texas court blocks execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson

Roberson was scheduled to be executed Oct. 16 after being convicted of capital murder in 2003 for the death of his two-year-old daughter Nikki.

www.texastribune.org

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 11h

Me too

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 11h

In Death Penalty news:

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/r...

Texas court blocks execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson

Roberson was scheduled to be executed Oct. 16 after being convicted of capital murder in 2003 for the death of his two-year-old daughter Nikki.

www.texastribune.org

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 14h

Noooooo!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 3d

Neat idea!!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, very helpful context!

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5d

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 5d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 7d

Nice story!

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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 7d

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building newrepublic.com/post/201258/... via @newrepublic.com

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building

ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.

newrepublic.com

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 7d

Here's some encouraging information (gift article):

This Is What Autocrats Dread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 8d

JuryBall Las Vegas is underway, with John Campbell explaining to the lawyer audience about the value of data. Plus, branded cappuccino!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 9d

Same!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 11d

Sick that this is necessary.

Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 11d

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 11d

I think it's inability to read a stacked graph.

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 11d

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Mass Shooting Tracker

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 11d

Hero!

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 11d

So exhausting..

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 11d

So exhausting..

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 11d

Go birds!🦅

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 11d

Eagles looking good! 🦅

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 14d

Grand jury decisions are a mystery!

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14d

NEWS: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a grand jury, just days after Trump demanded the DOJ prosecute him “now” and fired the prosecutor who refused to bring the case

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14d

NEWS: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a grand jury, just days after Trump demanded the DOJ prosecute him “now” and fired the prosecutor who refused to bring the case

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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Nandita Sharma, Will Jennings , and 25 more Anna O. Law, Nandita Sharma, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Jennifer A. Richeson, Gavin A. Schmidt, Steve Peers, Valerie P. Hans, Mary Feeney, Rosemary A. Joyce, Juan Cole, Daniel W. Drezner, Rebecca Tushnet, David R. Miller, Michael Zimmer, Jacob T. Levy, James Goodwin, Dean Eckles, Michael Jones‐Correa, Mark Rice, Ann Bartow, Henry Jones, Nelson Flores, Blair Fix, Daxton R. Stewart, Manisha Sinha, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15d

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 17d

Great news!

Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 17d

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants

A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

www.latimes.com

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 17d

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants

www.latimes.com

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 18d

You were at that game? Wow what a finish!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 20d

Consider this.

Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 20d

Democrats don’t have much incentive to approve a budget unless it involves substantial reversal of Medicaid cuts and ungodly ICE spending, reinstatement of civil servants, and iron clad legal commitments on research grants continuing to flow to universities. Time to fight and call the bluff.

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 20d

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 22d

So sorry to hear this.