Apparently the CSI type shows have had such a huge impact on warping people’s expectations of forensic science in jury trials (creating completely unrealistic fantasies of what it can do and when it’s even used), that judges now explicitly reference the shows during jury selection. I’ve heard they were having problems getting convictions for some types of crimes, as the jurors were expecting extensive forensic tests for crimes that in reality had never gotten that treatment (e.g. DNA work-ups for thefts).
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