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The “CSI Effect”… in Civil Cases as Well as Criminal Ones

There is a phenomenon that has shown up in criminal juries for the last several years now: laypeople have very high expectations that technical, exact, and conclusive evidence will be presented to them. Further, the expectations are that this evidence — which can be expensive or highly time-consuming to process — will be offered no [...]