Results for 'evidence'
Mitigating Jurors Racial Biases: The Effects of Content and Timing of Jury Instructions
examines whether the timing of debiasing jury instructions affects judgments of guilt. The experiment finds that pre-evidence instructions result in
Forum: Service Delivery, Resource Allocation, and Access to Justice: Greiner and Pattanayak and the Research Imperative
denied benefits. Second, pursuing an appeal requires little technical legal knowledge. Evidence and procedural rules are relaxed, the agency develops the
Forum: The New Electronic Discovery Rules: A Place for Employee Privacy?
ordered UBS bear seventy-five percent of the costs of restoring the other seventy-plus tapes. Restoration revealed damning evidence of spoliation—the
Forum: The CSI Effect: Fact or Fiction
had at least one trial that resulted in either an acquittal or hung jury because forensic evidence was not available, even though prosecutors believed
Forum: Beyond the Adjustment Wars: Dealing with Uncertainty and Bias in Redistricting Data
litigation should clarify that they will consider evidence that the data underlying a redistricting plan are biased, such that the district populations
Competing Exclusionary Rules in Multistate Investigations: Resolving Conflicts of State Search-and-Seizure Law
evidence of the State A crime. The search was unlawful and the evidence would be excluded under State B’s constitution, but the search was lawful under
Forum: The Myth of Prosecutorial Accountability After Connick v. Thompson: Why Existing Professional Responsibility Measures Cannot Protect Against Prosecutorial Misconduct
blood evidence from his defense attorneys. Thompson had sued the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office based on a failure-to-train theory, arguing
Why Protect Religious Freedom?
the standards of evidence and reasoning we everywhere else expect to constitute constraints on judgment and action.” Leiter argues, moreover, that it
Forum: Is the CSI Effect Good Science?
changes in how trials are conducted and in thinking about how they might be won. While some existing evidence, like the Maricopa study, is consistent
Forum: Privacy and Security Across Borders
nature of investigations that involve digital evidence. And each has profound implications for privacy, security, and the possibility of meaningful