This is one of those things about the CJ system that, when you people people about it, they think you must be exaggerating. Judges in Texas, Alabama, and elsewhere literally adopt prosecution briefs as their official opinion, word for word — typos and all. In death penalty cases.

Rodney Reed's
@innocence
lawyers are accusing his judge of literally copy-pasting a prosecutor's arguments — in essence letting the state ghostwrite the judge's opinion.

This tracks with a big study of TX death row cases, covered by
@keribla
in 2018: