This experiment tested the ability of undergraduate mock jurors (N = 295) to draw appropriate conclusions from statistical data on the diagnostic value of forensic evidence. Jurors read a summary of a ...

A Florida federal court judge oversteps her bounds by deciding that a jury need not get the chance to infer from the evidence it heard, that a baby was catapulted from her car seat because the seat ...

Almost a century ago, Justice Louis Brandeis recognized that “[s]ilence is often evidence of the most persuasive character.” Bilokumsky v. Tod, 263 U.S. 149, 153 (1923). In civil litigation that ...

This article resulted from our participation in the session on the “role of expert opinion and judgment in statistical inference” at the October 2017 ASA Symposium on Statistical Inference. We present ...

The Constitution defines impeachment as a civil proceeding before the Senate. Its noncriminal nature means the principles of evidence that will govern federal civil trials offer a number of wise and ...

GRAND RAPIDS — A federal judge who acquitted Rami Saba on charges of murder and kidnapping resulting in death in the 2007 disappearance of Donald Dietz said Wednesday she had misgivings about evidence ...

Minnesota Supreme Court justices heard arguments for a second time Wednesday in Nicholas Firkus’ appeal of his murder conviction, focusing on aspects of circumstantial evidence presented at trial. A ...