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 ...

Vigo County Coroner Roland M. Kohr hates CSI – the popular TV programs about solving often bizarre murders. Thanks to CSI, people have a completely unrealistic idea of what crime-scene investigations ...

When forensic pathologists take the witness stand, Oregon District Attorney Justin Marquis begins by asking, "Do you run around in miniskirts with a gun in one hand and a microscope in the other?" The ...

The Maryland Court of Appeals rejected a criminal defendant's claim that he received ineffective counsel because of his attorney's failure to object to a "CSI-effect" voir dire question in 2007, ...

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