[jayasena]

To me, it was a great lesson about how the criminal justice system can turn on the most remote and unexpected things, in this case a 30-year Reader's Digest story about the hazards of construction work.

Don't mean to derail the conversation abut I wonder how many jurors use CSI as a guide to interpreting evidence these days? I mean, if CSI can place a suspect at the specific place and time of a crime based solely on a blade of grass stuck to his shoe or some such thing, surely there must be more convincing evidence than the eye-witness testimony of a distracted bystander...

[jayasena]

To me, it was a great lesson about how the criminal justice system can turn on the most remote and unexpected things, in this case a 30-year Reader's Digest story about the hazards of construction work.

Don't mean to derail the conversation abut I wonder how many jurors use CSI as a guide to interpreting evidence these days? I mean, if CSI can place a suspect at the specific place and time of a crime based solely on a blade of grass stuck to his shoe or some such thing, surely there must be more convincing evidence than the eye-witness testimony of a distracted bystander...