Challenging Deceptive Graphic Evidence
- Topics:
- Case Management
- Tags:
- Evidence,
- Graphic Evidence,
- Graphics
- Source:
- Reed Elsevier
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Overview: Over the past few years, the use of "designed" graphic evidence in the courtroom has exploded. By "designed" graphics, one refers to ones that have been designed and produced by artists often with input from a trial consultant. The popularity of these types of graphics is based on truisms that have reached the point of banality: essentially that jurors understand better, will retain more, and will be better persuaded by information that is presented visually than verbally; that the message of the graphics should be instantaneous and require little explanation; and that jurors have little or no ability to deal with complexity. Graphic evidence is important and can have an enormous impact on juror decision-making. People have found that in some cases a particular piece of graphic evidence was instrumental in persuading a jury. However, one finds all too often the use of graphic evidence that is extremely beautiful, well designed, and deceptive. Attorneys should become more responsible for both policing the graphic evidence that they have produced for their own case as well as that produced for their opponents case.
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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1
