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The paper explicitly reports its 2020–2025 Harris County scope, exclusions yielding 22,361 usable cases, and analysis of 21 magistrates. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Do Judges Behave Like Algorithms? · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:166abb6be5fe0ec4eb17319e91bfedfe707ec968cadc761a0167752bc0def2db

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In this study, we focused on the years 2020 to 2025, a time period in which the Consent Decree rules had been adopted and were being used consistently. ... After feature engineering, we excluded cases with any existing holds and deferred adjudications ... as well as cases with null values for any of the features, leading to a total of 22,361 usable cases in our dataset. ... We assigned each included judge an anonymous identifier; our unique dataset contains over 22,000 unique cases decided by 21 magistrates.

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