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by irony 02/10/2010, 11:05pm PST |
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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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