26 Agu 2013 death penalty expert witnesses eyewitness identification incarceration juveniles neuropsychology neuroscience psychopathy sex offenders Forensnips aplenty, forensnips galore Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich ...
18 Apr 2013 bias criminal prosecution death penalty ethics expert witnesses juries media + culture science + technology trial system 'Digital lynch mob' assaults expert witness in televised murder trial Imagine you are testifying in a high-profile murder case being live-streamed over the Internet. Suddenly, an angry mob swarms all over you. ...
6 Mar 2013 bias civil commitment ethics expert witnesses forensic psychology pseudoscience psychopathy risk assessment sex offenders Remarkable experiment proves pull of adversarial allegiance Psychologists' scoring of forensic tools depends on which side they believe has hired them A brilliant experiment has proven that adve...
10 Des 2012 child custody expert witnesses family court movies trial system Documentary targets family courts and custody evaluators Stuck in the middle of nowhere on a case, I happened to catch the new documentary No Way Out But One , depicting injustices against abused w...
29 Nov 2012 confessions + interrogations expert witnesses juries trial system Jury Expert: Timely focus on false confessions "Why on earth would anyone, anywhere, ever confess to a serious crime they did not commit? Especially something like murder? Seriously?...
28 Okt 2012 civil commitment ethics expert witnesses fear + moral panic gender + sexuality juries movies sex offenders trial system Another one bites the dust: Hollow SVP prosecution no match for jurors' common sense 15 minutes. After a five-week trial, that's how long it took a jury in a rural Northern California county to decide that an openly gay m...
10 Agu 2012 bias expert witnesses Mental health expert witnesses slammed in court A pint-sized hired gun Are accusations of bias on the rise? Hired gun. Charlatan. Quack. Hack. It's every expert witness's worst nig...