The CSI Effect

Diane Auer Jones discusses her recent experience on a jury and notes that "CSI"-like tv shows have much more impact on jurors' reasoning than the judge's instructions. What's going on?

On this issue see also

Cole, Simon A., and Dioso-Villa, Rachel, CSI and its Effects: Media, Juries, and the Burden of Proof, 41 New England Law Review --(2007)

Mann, Michael D., The "CSI Effect": Better Jurors Through Television and Science?

Podlas, Kimberlianne, "The CSI Effect": Exposing the Media Myth
16 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 429 (Winter, 2006)

Schweitzer, N.J., and Michael J. Saks, The CSI Effect: Popular Fiction About Forensic Science Affects Public Expectations About Real Forensic Science, 47 Jurimetrics 357 (Spring 2007)

Shelton, Donald E., Young S. Kim, and Gregg Barak, A Study of Juror Expectations and Demands Concerning Scientific Evidence: Does the 'CSI Effect' Exist? 9 Vanderbilt J. Ent. & Tech. L. 330 (2006).