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Science in Legal Proceedings and Court Decisions Pt 2

Is best available science utilized?

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SciPinion will be exploring the role of science in legal proceedings and court decisions through a series of SciPolls. This second SciPoll will continue to focus on if the best science is being utilized by the courts. 
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  • Result 6306 user-761134

    06/05/2024 14:15 

    All previous comments agree on the difficulty of science playing a leading and fundamentally impartial role in judicial cases. 
In the environmental issue that I know a little more closely, at least in our latitudes, the complex layer of interests, 
the lack of economic resources for the relevant studies imply adversities while efforts are made to train the judicial stratum 
with knowledge based on science to a better understanding of the complex environmental problems

  • Result 6306 user-180052

    06/05/2024 09:27

    I think the overall quality of scince is fine but its interpretation  by some scentists and specifically  by the  legal community  is highly biased based on individual's  opinions  and dirctand indirect  interests/agendas. 

  • Result 6306 user-813332

    05/22/2024 17:21

    It will be determined by whether lawyers feel the scientific evidence is persuasive to a jury in a predictable manner. The acceptance of a scientific view has declined considerably in society (due to the deterioration of education - and the use of the internet has made institutional learning less authoritative), so I expect jurors to be less impressed by science than in the past.

  • Result 6306 user-483986

    05/22/2024 10:37

    It depends on the 
    bench to bench 
    Person to person 
    Season to season 
    Majorly purely based on once perception

  • Result 6306 user-938667

    05/08/2024 09:50

    I have been declared an Expert Witness

  • Result 6307 user-938667

    05/08/2024 09:49

    Yes, it should be to establish credibility.  I have been declared an expert witnes in Superior Court.

  • Result 6306 user-938667

    05/08/2024 09:46

    I have not been in court for many years.  I am a Ph.D. researcher as well as a LL.B. (Lawyer).

  • Result 6306 user-573085

    04/24/2024 17:18

    I am not sure that there is anything to debate, since the preponderance of answers is "I don't know" which is also my answer.  The evidence presented is related to the experience and wisdom of the presenter-- we all know the great variation in experience and wisdom that exists throughout human interactions. Therefore, each case is unique unto itself.