Saks a panelist on “CSI Effect”

08/11/2008

Saks a panelist on “CSI Effect”

Michael Saks

Michael Saks

     Professor Michael Saks  recently attended the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, to participate in a panel on “The CSI Effect: From the Living Room to the Courtroom.”
     Rather than focus on the effects of over-hyped fiction on the “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” franchise on television, the panelists discussed concerns about the greater effects of historically over-hyped forensic science, said Saks, a professor of law and psychology and a Faculty Fellow in the College of Law’s Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology.
     Joining Saks were Peter Neufeld, co-director of the Innocence Project, Adam Liptak, national legal reporter at The New York Times, Robert Shaler, director of the forensic science program at Pennsylvania State University, and Dan Gallipeau, president of Dispute Dynamics, Inc., a trial consulting firm.
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