All Articles tagged reliability

• New York Appeals
  March 24, 2021 EDT
  NEW YORK’S EXCITED UTTERANCE HEARSAY EXCEPTION: AVE ATQUE AND VALE?
  Michael J. Hutter

  This article tracks New York's excited utterance hearsay exception and ultimately concludes that the case to abolish the exception has not been made.

• Justice Commentaries
  September 27, 2020 EDT
  THE BITE MARK DENTISTS AND THE COUNTERATTACK ON FORENSIC SCIENCE REFORM
  Marvin ZalmanJames Windell

  The resistance to scientific challenge by the forensic odontologists in their editorial, Epidermis and Enamel, reflects the rear guard defensiveness displayed by other forensic analysts and unprogressive prosecutors.

• Justice Commentaries
  July 17, 2018 EDT
  PICKING AND CHOOSING: INCONSISTENT USE OF NEUROSCIENTIFIC LEGAL EVIDENCE
  Joseph J. Avery

  How is neuroscientific evidence impinging or threatening to impinge the U.S. legal system, and how are courts addressing this?

• Justice Commentaries
  July 17, 2018 EDT
  EXAMINING THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN THE COURTROOM: ADMISSIBILITY AND RELIABILITY OF FORENSIC SCIENCE IN THE COURTROOM
  Maryam HamiraniItiel E. DrorRuth M. Morgan

  The lack of a scientific foundation behind many of the methods used to analyze and communicate the value of evidence is review in this article.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 02, 2016 EDT
  MENTAL COMPETENCY LAW AND PLEA BARGAINING: A NEUROPHENOMENOLOGICAL CRITIQUE
  Robert SchehrChelsea French

  This article argues that the jurisprudential assumption that human beings are rational actors capable of making decisions that maximize their interests is, when exposed to social and natural science, flawed.

• General
  January 01, 2012 EDT
  REGULATING THE USE AND SHARING OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION DATA: ASSESSING CALIFORNIA‘S SB 1476 SMART METER PRIVACY STATUTE
  John R. Forbush

  This article analyzes California‘s SB 1476 from a privacy perspective, assessing whether and how this statute will impact the energy efficiency goals of the smart grid movement.

• Justice Commentaries
  March 04, 2011 EDT
  WHY AND HOW NEW YORK SHOULD ENACT MANDATORY STATEWIDE EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURES
  Andrew D. Rikard

  This comment proposes that New York State, through the adoption of mandatory statewide witness identification procedures, fulfill its moral and ethical duty to protect the innocent.