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By Kent Scheidegger et al.

India?s Use of Brain Scans in Courts Is Debated: NY Times writer Anand Giridharadas, reports that India has become the first country to convict someone of a crime relying on evidence from a brain scan. This controversial machine involves a brain scanner that produces images of the human mind in action and is said to reveal signs that a suspect remembers details of the crime in question. The technologies, generally regarded as promising but unproved, have yet to be widely accepted as evidence ? except in India. It was only in June, in a murder case in Pune, in Maharashtra State, that a judge explicitly cited a scan as proof that the suspect?s brain held ?experiential knowledge? about the crime that only the killer could possess, sentencing her to life in prison...continue to full post

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