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Misconvictions: When Law & Science Collide, Jane Moriarty
Misconvictions: When Law & Science Collide, Jane Moriarty
Jane Campbell Moriarty
Forthcoming 2013.
Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence In The U.S. Courts, Jane Moriarty
Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence In The U.S. Courts, Jane Moriarty
Jane Campbell Moriarty
This article explores the admissibility of neuroimaging evidence in U.S. courts, recognizing various trends in decisions about such evidence. While courts have routinely admitted some neuroimages, such as CT scans and MRI, as proof of trauma and disease, they have been more circumspect about admitting the PET and SPECT scans and fMRI evidence. With the latter technologies, courts have often expressed reservations about what can be inferred from the images. Moreover, courts seem unwilling to find neuroimaging sufficient to prove either insanity or incompetency, but are relatively lenient about admitting neuroimages in death penalty hearings. Some claim that fMRI and …
Symposium Foreward: Daubert, Innocence, And The Future Of Forensic Science, Jane Moriarty
Symposium Foreward: Daubert, Innocence, And The Future Of Forensic Science, Jane Moriarty
Jane Campbell Moriarty
The years since Daubert have not been kind to those seeking to challenge prosecutorial expert evidence, as many of the Symposium authors recognize. After two decades of trying to convince courts that there is no empirical basis for handwriting identification testimony declaring a match between two samples, Michael Risinger claims to be packing his bags and leaving the island until there is a more conducive climate for examining the reliability problems.