So the next time anyone says "equal before the law", tell them that it is not reasonable to BELIEVE such a thing, as you have science refuting that claim:
We examined cross-sectional sentencing data (n = 17,671) using a hurdle count model, which combines a binary (logistic regression) model to predict zero counts and a zero-truncated negative binomial model to predict positive counts. We also conducted a series of Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrat�