Courtroom animations questioned
By Greg Kline
Monday April 24, 2006
Robin Scholz
A study by University of Illinois psychology Professor Neil Roese and colleagues indicates that courtroom animations, in some instances, may make a jury more likely to assign blame and hand out harsher penalties.
Increasingly sophisticated and at the same time easier to do with the ready availability of the necessary hardware and software, animations made for court cases are supposed to assist juries in doing their jobs better.
The idea is that the minimovies can help folks weighing responsibility in a traffic accident, for instance, or trying to sort out indications from a crime scene understand the evidence more clearly and reduce the influence of biases they may have.
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