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Prosecutors can still question possible jurors about the “CSI effect,” the theory that jury members who have watched crime-based fictional television shows are less likely to convict without forensic ...

For James Jabbour, who has worked in law enforcement for 24 years, investigating sexual assaults, murders and robberies is all in a day's work. And when the police inspector teaches his Ex College ...

If Stanley Liggins is granted a third trial in the 1990 brutal murder of a 9-year-old girl, the jury won't have much physical evidence to consider. And how that will play with a "CSI"-loving public ...

WASHINGTON — The honeymoon is over between real-life crime scene investigators and the stars that play them in the immensely popular television show "CSI." Forensic scientists are now complaining ...

One term for misconceptions that people have about forensic evidence is “the CSI effect,” referring to the idea that watching true crime shows makes jurors expect to see high-tech forensic evidence in ...

Hollywood loves to show forensic labs producing DNA matches within minutes, but reality is starkly different. Television shows like NCIS or CSI portray DNA samples coming into a lab and being ...

TV: DNA results come back in a few hours. Reality: Nuclear DNA can take several days to a week to process, and the samples are normally tested in batches that take about a month. It can take a month ...