Three nights a week more than 60 million Americans watch the heroes of "CSI" use high-tech tools to catch the crooks. That's millions of potential jurors hooked on forensic science. And, as CBS News ...

Maryland’s top court on Tuesday unanimously overturned a man’s conviction for sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl in Salisbury, saying he was denied a fair trial because the judge told the jury that ...

Maryland’s top court excused lawyers who failed to object to judges telling jurors the state need not present DNA evidence to prove guilt before a 2010 ruling. This expectation of jurors has been ...

Many prosecutors complain that shows like CSI make their job harder, as jurors demand ultra-high-tech tests to convict suspects. But an... Is The 'CSI Effect' Influencing Courtrooms? The fictional ...

Representations of forensics on the popular CBS television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation are frequently criticized as unrealistic, but the depictions “are meaningful and should not be easily ...

The burglary call at the laundromat came in on a slow day, so Greeley police officer John Zakavec was able to work on it undisturbed for a long time. One of the pieces of evidence he obtained from the ...

Michigan Judge Donald Shelton and Carol Henderson, of the National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law, talk about the "CSI effect" — and juries' increasing demand for cases to be proven ...

The conference organizers didn’t expect the outrage that followed the scheduling of a session on the TV series <i>CSI: Cyber</i>. They should have, though. Deep-voiced announcer, with a touch of ...

(ARA) – Now in its eighth season, the Emmy award-winning investigative drama CSI draws a weekly audience of about 20 million viewers. But CSI is more than simply entertainment. With such a large ...

Now in its eighth season, the Emmy award-winning investigative drama CSI draws a weekly audience of about 20 million viewers. But CSI is more than simply entertainment. With such a large viewership, ...