by Michelle Sparrow | Feb 22, 2011 | Criminal Defense, Criminal Law Blog
We’ve been discussing the “CSI Effect” — that is, the strongly held belief that jurors are so accustomed to television’s forensic acrobatics that they expect real-life prosecutors to present the same type of evidence. Criminal defense... by Michelle Sparrow | Feb 17, 2011 | Criminal Defense, Criminal Law Blog
In our last post, we were talking about the “CSI Effect.” Prosecutors in North Carolina and around the country have complained for a while now that American jurors are so swept up in the high-tech world of television forensics that they expect real-life...