Written for a law firm client with three different areas of practice. Blog content alternated family law, financial law, and criminal law.
Crime
investigations on television are presented as neatly solvable by good-looking
people with the right tools, the right mood lighting and a really good montage.
The abundance of procedural dramas such as “CSI”, “NCIS” or “Bones” have been
cited as causing bumps in actual criminal prosecutions as jurors have begun to
expect conclusive and irrefutable physical evidence at trials. It’s been called
“The CSI Effect” and may or may not be influencing how jurors treat evidence,
make decisions and ultimately bring judgments on criminal defendants. Evan
Durnal of the University of Central Missouri, Criminal Justice Department, has
compiled a few erroneous assumptions for the Journal of Forensic Science
International.
