John Gooley

• Predicting recidivism – the questionable role of algorithms in the criminal justice system

  30th Mar 2023

  As AI becomes increasingly popular in courts internationally, John Gooley of Stacks Law Firm questions the algorithm that predicted an 18-year-old African-American woman who took a child’s bike to be at ‘high risk’ of reoffending, while assessing a 41-year-old white man convicted of armed robbery as ‘low risk’.

• Should juries be told the criminal history of the defendant?

  15th Sep 2022

  How much should a jury know? asks John Gooley, unpacking ‘a question that comes up time and again in discussions of justice and the law’ – with reference to a tragic case in Picton last week, where the past history of the defendant was made very public before a plea was even entered.

• Concerns over police reliance on phone data extraction technology

  17th Feb 2022

  Defences could be mounted based on possible security faults in the technology used by police to extract data from mobile phones, challenging convictions that rely on this data as evidence, writes John Gooley – a lawyer with many years' experience in federal law enforcement and intelligence. 

• Why your non-dental cavities may be of interest to the authorities

  27th Sep 2018

  In the event that new legislation permitting searches for internally concealed drugs is passed in NSW, criminal lawyers and their clients will have to adjust to a changing legal landscape very quickly.