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JPO: Juris Policy Optimization for Structured Legal Reasoning in Criminal Judgment Prediction

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 30, 2026 · UTC

Criminal judgment prediction requires models to infer statutory articles, charges, and sentencing outcomes from case facts. Unlike standard classification tasks, it involves a structured reasoning process in which statutes should be matched with facts, charges should be justified by statutes, and sentencing outcomes should remain consistent with charges. Existing approaches optimize final labels, and while some have attempted to evaluate reasoning quality, their evaluations are indirect, often relying on LLM-generated rubrics that reflect model-internal preferences rather than the inherent log

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