Morris Hoffman
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Morris B. Hoffman is a judge in the Denver, Colorado District Court. He was appointed to the position in December 1990.
Hoffman is also a fellow at the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research.
Publications
Hoffman collaborated in 2007 with two economists from Emory University, Paul Rubin and Joanna Shepherd, on an econometric study of the effectiveness of public defenders versus attorneys who represent criminal defendants on a fee basis. The paper was published in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law and also resulted in an opinion column in the New York Times called, Free-Market Justice.[1]
In their research for the paper, they studied all 5,224 felony criminal cases filed in Denver in 2002, assessing the amount of jail or prison time received by defendants represented by public defenders versus defendants represented by private attorneys.
The study concluded that the average sentence for clients of public defenders was about three years longer than the average for clients of private lawyers.
