CRM 308 Lecture Notes - Black Sheep, Law School Admission Test, Forensic Psychiatry
5 Jun 2014
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Impossible to have knowledge of all fields; lawyers cannot know all the techniques or terminologies or procedures. Provide information for the jury that is less informed seen as more objective. What do you see? (shadow of black sheep) Second expert: ryerson has at least one black sheep. Third: ryerson has at least one sheep that is black on one side, we can"t see the other side. Madrid bombing considered terrorist act and authorities find fingerprints on an explosive. When they run the fingerprint, they find a match to mr. mayfield and are confident they have got their suspect. Mayfield turned out to be a lawyer and ended up fighting to say that his fingerprint wasn"t the one on the explosive. The mismatch turned out to lead to someone else: this opened up a new pandora"s box for people because the whole forensic community now think there are challenges to fingerprints.
