[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by wolf

DNA is far from being the end all and be all of jurisprudence that CSI wants us to think it is every week ... justification defenses and "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit" are what drive the process.

This has become quite a problem.

"Jurors now expect us to have a DNA test for just about every case," laments Oregon District Attorney Josh Marquis. "They expect us to have the most advanced technology possible, and they expect it to look like it does on television."

And in a big city like Baltimore, prosecutors blamed "The CSI Effect" when jurors acquitted a man of murder, even though were two eyewitnesses. "Not even first degree, second degree, third degree, nothing, and they shot my husband," cried Patricia Peterson, the victim's wife.

It's just TV, folks! Fiction!