Isn't the "hungry judge effect" a myth?

Cases aren't ordered randomly. Obvious cases are scheduled at the end of session before breaks.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1110910108

"hungry judge effect" is a debunked myth.

The story of its debunking is so much more interesting: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/judgment-and-decisio...

It's been criticized, but "time since last meal" is still known to be a predictor of harsher sentences (even when you control for legal representation / severity).