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6 Disastrous Ways Pop Culture Influences The Real World PART 1 CSI MIAMI by irony 02/10/2010, 11:05pm PST
http://www.cracked.com/article_18398_6-disastrous-ways-pop-culture-influences-real-world.html

To put it simply, some experts believe that the growing popularity of the CSI franchise has created unrealistic expectations among juries, who see on TV that a single skin cell is all you need to create a 3D hologram of the suspect's face, and assume that if you don't have that, then he must not have done it, right? Therefore you have jurors who think they need to vote "not guilty" in every case that doesn't have 100 percent indisputable DNA evidence (which it turns out is pretty much all of them).


sounds sorta like what happened in the OJ trial, the defense was able to create "reasonable doubt" about the DNA evidence because it's only a one in a 100 million chance that it could be someone else (in other words a close family member)
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6 Disastrous Ways Pop Culture Influences The Real World PART 1 CSI MIAMI by irony 02/10/2010, 11:05pm PST NEW
    Jurors were heard to say "Big deal, a lot of people have the same blood type." NT by They didn't get what DNA was. -Last 02/11/2010, 6:41am PST NEW
    I am widely misunderstood. NT by a priori Bayesian probability 02/11/2010, 11:11pm PST NEW
 
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