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"Detecting Liars: A New Method?"

This post was written by Evan Schaeffer: "From Wired Science: 'Lie-Detection Brain Scan Could Be Used in Court for First Time'

A Brooklyn attorney hopes to break new ground this week when he offers a brain scan as evidence that a key witness in a civil trial is telling the truth, Wired.com has learned.

If the fMRI scan is admitted, it would be a legal first in the United States and could have major consequences for the future of neuroscience in court.

It seems unlikely such a scan would be admissible. There are still plenty of low-tech methods of exposing liars, however--see this article at Psychology Today: 'Top 10 Secrets of Effective Liars.'

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Source: Trial Practice Tips Weblog, 5 May 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on May 06, 2010 (boomark / email).