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For James Jabbour, who has worked in law enforcement for 24 years, investigating sexual assaults, murders and robberies is all in a day's work. And when the police inspector teaches his Ex College ...

Prosecutors can still question possible jurors about the “CSI effect,” the theory that jury members who have watched crime-based fictional television shows are less likely to convict without forensic ...

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One term for misconceptions that people have about forensic evidence is “the CSI effect,” referring to the idea that watching true crime shows makes jurors expect to see high-tech forensic evidence in ...

Law and order people call it “The CSI Effect.” We in the home audience have been so inundated with the micro-details of forensics since “CSI” changed the nature of crime stories in prime time that ...

If Stanley Liggins is granted a third trial in the 1990 brutal murder of a 9-year-old girl, the jury won't have much physical evidence to consider. And how that will play with a "CSI"-loving public ...