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: Neuroethics and LawInterim Update on Tennessee fMRI Lie Detection Case
By Adam Kolber
Greg Miller provides some updates on the Tennessee case testing fMRI lie detection admissibility:
A federal court in Tennessee heard arguments yesterday and today on whether lie detection technology based on fMRI scans of brain activity should be admitted in a criminal case involving a psychologist accused of defrauding Medicare. Magistrate Judge Tu Pham presided over the pretrial hearing and could issue his report anytime between now and 1 June, when the trial begins.
The hearing provided the most formal legal test yet of whether fMRI lie detection meets the so-called Daubert standard for admitting evidence in federal court, and as such it could set an important precedent.
Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).
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