Comments on: Study raises questions about the role of brain scans in courtrooms http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/05/10/study-raises-questions-about-the-role-of-brain-scans-in-courtrooms/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Dana Compton http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/05/10/study-raises-questions-about-the-role-of-brain-scans-in-courtrooms/#comment-7530 Dana Compton Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:26:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=1578#comment-7530 Hi, Your link above to the PNAS paper referenced does not work. You have: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.100102810 The correct link is: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1001028107 ...which does resolve correctly. Thanks, Dana Compton Production Manager, PNAS Hi,

Your link above to the PNAS paper referenced does not work. You have:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.100102810

The correct link is:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1001028107

…which does resolve correctly.

Thanks,
Dana Compton
Production Manager, PNAS

]]> By: Torah http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/05/10/study-raises-questions-about-the-role-of-brain-scans-in-courtrooms/#comment-7529 Torah Tue, 11 May 2010 15:04:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=1578#comment-7529 DARPA is getting their sticky little fingers in the mix too...this blog has a funny take on the next step of interrogations. http://www.scienceinseconds.com/blogPost.php?id=227 DARPA is getting their sticky little fingers in the mix too…this blog has a funny take on the next step of interrogations. http://www.scienceinseconds.com/blogPost.php?id=227

]]> By: southlakesmom http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/05/10/study-raises-questions-about-the-role-of-brain-scans-in-courtrooms/#comment-7528 southlakesmom Mon, 10 May 2010 20:14:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=1578#comment-7528 Thank goodness the Indian Supreme Court woke up! When I was in law school and we studied technologies one of the things that we studied was how LONG it takes for new technology to be approved, especially in criminal trials, as so much rests on the verdicts. Fingerprint evidence took YEARS to be accepted, and polygraphs are still inadmissible under normal circumstances. Fascinatingly though, when I served as a juror on a criminal bank robbery trial two summers back, the other jurors were hesitant to convict absent DNA evidence on a 2nd robbery (there was conclusive DNA on the first charge), even though the accused was clearly on the bank security film and his accomplice had ID'd him! It seems that Hollywood has convinced people that if there's no DNA there's no case. As both a former prosecutor AND former defense attorney, it was absolutely maddening to listen to the 'experts'. I would think that the Supreme Court's action would exonerate the woman, but her life has been pretty much trashed in the meantime. Kind of like those people who are exonerated now that DNA evidence has gained enough credibility to aid in cases where there's no other evidence that convicted. For an interesting read on this, "Picking Cotton" is thought provoking. Thank goodness the Indian Supreme Court woke up! When I was in law school and we studied technologies one of the things that we studied was how LONG it takes for new technology to be approved, especially in criminal trials, as so much rests on the verdicts. Fingerprint evidence took YEARS to be accepted, and polygraphs are still inadmissible under normal circumstances.

Fascinatingly though, when I served as a juror on a criminal bank robbery trial two summers back, the other jurors were hesitant to convict absent DNA evidence on a 2nd robbery (there was conclusive DNA on the first charge), even though the accused was clearly on the bank security film and his accomplice had ID’d him! It seems that Hollywood has convinced people that if there’s no DNA there’s no case. As both a former prosecutor AND former defense attorney, it was absolutely maddening to listen to the ‘experts’.

I would think that the Supreme Court’s action would exonerate the woman, but her life has been pretty much trashed in the meantime. Kind of like those people who are exonerated now that DNA evidence has gained enough credibility to aid in cases where there’s no other evidence that convicted. For an interesting read on this, “Picking Cotton” is thought provoking.

]]> By: Ed Yong http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/05/10/study-raises-questions-about-the-role-of-brain-scans-in-courtrooms/#comment-7527 Ed Yong Mon, 10 May 2010 19:39:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=1578#comment-7527 Interesting. I wonder if this would affect the sentence of the woman convicted in the 2008 trial. Interesting. I wonder if this would affect the sentence of the woman convicted in the 2008 trial.

]]> By: CoffeeCupContrails http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/05/10/study-raises-questions-about-the-role-of-brain-scans-in-courtrooms/#comment-7526 CoffeeCupContrails Mon, 10 May 2010 19:35:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=1578#comment-7526 Regarding the use of brain scans and narco-analysis in Indian Courts: http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article422149.ece India's Supreme court just last week declared that illegal. Regarding the use of brain scans and narco-analysis in Indian Courts: http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article422149.ece

India’s Supreme court just last week declared that illegal.

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