The Yale Law Journal

Richard A. Bierschbach

Essay

Integrating Remorse and Apology into Criminal Procedure

Stephanos Bibas & Richard A. Bierschbach

114 Yale L.J. 85 (2004)

Criminal procedure largely ignores remorse and apology or, at most, uses them as proxies for an individual defendant's badness. The field is preoccupied with procedural values such as efficiency, accuracy, and procedural fairness, to the exclusion of the criminal law's substan…