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- Title
Discussion paper: Hard cases make bad law—reactions to R v T.
- Authors
Thompson, William C.
- Abstract
The article discusses the R v. T court case in which the evidences were difficult for interpretation of results to give judgments. It mentions that the juries raised questions against the likelihood-ratio tests which were utilized for calculation of scientific evidence. It mentions that juries described the utilized methods as non-scientific which was used by forensic experts on the basis of evidences presented against the crime.
- Subjects
LEGAL evidence; LIKELIHOOD ratio tests; JUDGMENT (Psychology); JURY; CRIME; EXPERT evidence
- Publication
Law, Probability & Risk, 2012, Vol 11, Issue 4, p347
- ISSN
1470-8396
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/lpr/mgs020