The fictional forensic investigators in shows like CSI put old-time sleuths like Sherlock Holmes to shame. They can read a crime scene like it's a glossy magazine. "I think that CSI has done some ...

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Prosecutors can still question possible jurors about the “CSI effect,” the theory that jury members who have watched crime-based fictional television shows are less likely to convict without forensic ...

For James Jabbour, who has worked in law enforcement for 24 years, investigating sexual assaults, murders and robberies is all in a day's work. And when the police inspector teaches his Ex College ...

Law and order people call it “The CSI Effect.” We in the home audience have been so inundated with the micro-details of forensics since “CSI” changed the nature of crime stories in prime time that ...

Jerry Bruckheimer is the Michael Moore of criminal law. Defense lawyers love his CSI shows because they have caused juries to demand DNA analysis in nearly every two-bit 7-Eleven holdup. Prosecutors, ...