Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Law and Order

The case against evidence - The Boston Globe:


“Forensics had no bearing on the outcome at all,” said Ira Sommers, professor of criminal justice at California State University, Los Angeles, who coauthored the research with colleague and fellow professor Deborah Baskin. “It was not a significant predictor of the district attorney charging the case and had no relation to actually getting a conviction. That’s a pretty stunning finding considering all the hype around forensic evidence.”
As a long time Law and Order watcher who could never sit through a whole episode of any CSI, I feel like my taste in police procedurals is tangentially validated.
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