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Forensic Science Evidence: Can the Law Keep Up with Science?

Forensic Science Evidence: Can the Law Keep Up with Science?

Shelton, Donald E.

Hardcover

Series: Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship

CriminologyGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1593325177
ISBN13: 9781593325176
Publisher: Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc
Published: Jun 15 2012
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Shelton describes the startling questions that have arisen about the reliability of many forms of scientific evidence which were traditionally regarded as reliable and have been routinely admitted to prove guilt. The exonerations resulting from the development of DNA have exposed the lack of truswortiness of much of the scientific evidence that was used to convict people who turned out to be innocent. The Congressionally commissioned report of the National Academy of Sciences documented the lack of scientific basis in many of these areas. Nevertheless, Shelton discloses that many courts continue to routinely admit such evidence in criminal cases, in spite of the obligation of judges to be the gatekeepers of forensic science evidence. He explores reasons for that phenomenon and describes whether and how it might change in the future.

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