Excited Utterance

Will the Jury System Survive the Peña-Rodriguez Exception to Rule 606(b)? Taurus Myhand from the University of Alabama asks that very question in this episode of Excited Utterance.

The Res Gestae Exceptions to the Rule Against Hearsay.

Alex Nunn interviews Mara Afzali of Albany Law School and Bond, Schoeneck & King as she presents her work about the Res Gestae exceptions to the hearsay rule.

The Proficiency of Experts. Brandon Garrett from the UVA School of Law argues that expert qualification should depend on expert performance and proficiency testing, rather than the traditional markers of credentials and experience.

Disgust Reactions to Gruesome Photographs. Jessica Salerno from ASU investigates the prejudicial effect of gory photographs and whether color photographs (as opposed to black and white) make a difference.

The Impact of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts. Catherine Bonventre from Guilford College discusses the impact that the Supreme Court’s decision in Melendez-Diaz had on the efficiency and operation of crime laboratories.

Evaluating Negative Forensic Evidence. Bill Thompson from University of California Irvine discusses how jurors evaluate the absence of forensic evidence.

Forensic Linguistics. Robert Leonard from Hofstra University discusses the use of linguistics for forensic purposes.

Law and the Epistemology of Disagreement. Alex Stein from Brooklyn Law School talks about the epistemological problems created when individual jurors disagree about the reasons underlying their verdict.

The Reliability of Present Sense Impression Hearsay Evidence. Timothy Lau discusses the empirical basis of the present sense impression exception to the hearsay rule.

Bias, Pretrial Publicity, and Deliberation. Christine Ruva from the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee Department of Psychology explores how deliberations affect the biasing effects of pre-trial publicity on jurors.