This would probably split randomly. Also, lawyers are probably not scheduling blocks of hearings (if they even have any say in scheduling). You schedule for your client, so if you knew, all you would do is schedule ALL your cases for right after lunch, if possible.
Even if that weren’t the case, there’s no particular reason why you’d want a more favorable judge for an easy win than for a tough one. Indeed, there are many reasons you’d want a more favorable judge for a tougher-to-win case—higher marginal benefit, mostly. In short, it’d be very hard for underlying factors to create meaningful systematic bias on such an obvious characteristic in a sample this size. Unless there’s some odd organizational principle, like, “More serious offenses are put off until the end of the day,” and such was not observed.
This would probably split randomly. Also, lawyers are probably not scheduling blocks of hearings (if they even have any say in scheduling). You schedule for your client, so if you knew, all you would do is schedule ALL your cases for right after lunch, if possible.
Even if that weren’t the case, there’s no particular reason why you’d want a more favorable judge for an easy win than for a tough one. Indeed, there are many reasons you’d want a more favorable judge for a tougher-to-win case—higher marginal benefit, mostly. In short, it’d be very hard for underlying factors to create meaningful systematic bias on such an obvious characteristic in a sample this size. Unless there’s some odd organizational principle, like, “More serious offenses are put off until the end of the day,” and such was not observed.