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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Oct. 29, 2026

Place your bets, your honor

Polymarket removed its wager on the Cornell fraternity case after public backlash, but the larger concern is that markets like this existed in the first place. When people can bet on charges, trials and verdicts, what does that do to public trust in the justice system?

Yosi Yahoudai

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Alexander B. Boris

Senior Trial Attorney
J&Y Law Firm

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Place your bets, your honor
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Until recently, anyone with an internet connection outside the U.S. could wager on whether a college student who says she was gang-raped would ever see her alleged attackers charged.

The market opened Sept. 30 on Polymarket's international platform and asked whether any of seven Cornell University fraternity members named in a civil lawsuit would face a felony sex crime charge by Jan. 31, 2027. Before it came down, traders had moved $451,633 through the market and priced the od...

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