The Power of the BarBri
Going over my notes from Prof. Whitebread’s BarBri crimpro lecture I’m reminded that in discussing the Miranda rules he said (and this is just a close paraphrase):
All studies have found Miranda has no effect on suspect willingness to talk. But portrayal of Miranda on tv has told everyone they have rights. They don’t know what they are, but they know they have them. I don’t understand why they don’t repeal the Miranda requirement except that that ct. would be known as the ct. that took away everyone’s rights.
I think he was trying to be a little bit funny and I doubt most people even record stuff like this in their notes. Still, it’s a rather provocative thing to just toss out there offhandedly when you consider that Whitebread was speaking to literally thousands of recent law school graduates who will, in all likelihood, actually be practicing law within just a few months.
Like I said, most of those thousands who heard Whitebread’s comment probably won’t remember it and even fewer will take it to heart or adopt it as their own view. My point is simply that BarBri has a relatively captive audience of thousands of potentially influential people each year. If you were a BarBri lecturer, isn’t there some little radical or controversial idea you’d like to toss out to that audience to see if it would take hold? [tags]barbri[/tags]
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July 9th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
I suppose the up-side is that very few of those in the course are actually interested in criminal law. Sadly, it seems to be a rather rare speciality.
July 10th, 2006 at 11:01 am
That kind of reminds me of the Property guy - he said that if you can’t figure out a Rule Against Perpetuities question, then just mark A. If enough people mark A and move on, they’ll throw out the question. Awesome!