Extralegal considerations such as the gender, income, and race of defendants are found to matter most when the determination of guilt is at issue, but legal considerations such as the number of prior convictions and the severity of the offense have more substantial effects when sentence is decided. Consistent with the predictions of Stoll (1968), extralegal factors are found to predict court outcomes best when judges have the most influence over a DWI outcome, but extralegal factors tend to be disregarded when probation officers are more influential. (Author abstract)