Archive - Probable Cause

Bail Realities & Policy Fictions

The truth about affordable bail

Feb 21 • Rick Horowitz

7:26

The Unrealized Promise of Humphrey

When Bail Reform Meets Judicial Resistance

Feb 18 • Rick Horowitz

7:10

The "Voluntary" Plea

How coercion is laundered into consent

Feb 17 • Rick Horowitz

Treatment Was the Point. So Why Are Judges Saying No?

How Mental Health Diversion Is Being Quietly Undermined

Feb 5 • Rick Horowitz

7:56

Plea Bargaining: Market vs. Story

Feb 3 • Rick Horowitz

8:09

Information, Fear, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Who Really Controls Choice in Plea Bargaining

Feb 1 • Rick Horowitz

January 2026

Seeing the System Sideways

Why market structure keeps explaining criminal defense

Jan 31 • Rick Horowitz

Cornering Power

Why Power Cannot Be Monopolized Without Breaking the System

Jan 20 • Rick Horowitz

There Are Not Two Sides

Criminal Defense Lessons Learned from the Market

Jan 18 • Rick Horowitz

Testimony, Revisited

On the Gap Between Recognition and Reality

Jan 17 • Rick Horowitz

Time Does the Negotiating

How Delay Becomes Leverage in Plea Bargaining

Jan 9 • Rick Horowitz

What a halted stock reminded me about momentum, exhaustion, and the discipline of restraint

Jan 8 • Rick Horowitz

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