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Originally Posted by AndyJWest
See the Wikipedia article on the CSI effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI_effect The dubious science, along with much else puts unrealistic expectations in the minds of jurors who have to deal with real court cases involving real evidence. |
True that. In the case I was on, the police ran into a hitch when the defendants solicitor produced betting slips which were used to explain the money he was found with about a month or so after the defendant was arrested. The police went to the betting shops but found that the tapes were only kept on a weekly basis and were overwritten after that.
They'd have never had that problem in CSI.