Injustice Arising from the Unnoticed Power of Priming: How Lawyers and Even Judges can be Misled by Unreliable Transcripts of Indistinct Forensic Audio
Fraser, Helen; Kinoshita, Yuko
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Current law allows police transcripts to assist juries in understanding the content of indistinct forensic audio – with a number of legal safeguards intended to mitigate any risk that an inaccurate transcript might mislead the jury. The problem is that the safeguards rely on lawyers and judges gaining a sense of personal confidence that they hear words suggested by the transcript. The present article describes a new experiment showing that personal confidence is a poor indicator of perceptual...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2021 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/292161 |
Source: | Criminal Law Journal |
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