Community | December 11, 2009 | 5 comments

New brain scan used to convict woman of murder

source: http://callawyer.com/story.cfm?eid=905842&evid=1

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A San Diego company has figured out a way to tell truth from lie's by using an MRI...or so they say. It has been use to convict a 24-year-old woman of murder.


http://callawyer.com/story.cfm?eid=905842&evid=1
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5 comments // New brain scan used to convict woman of murder

  • thewhompus
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • From a national security standpoint, fMRIs do have one obvious drawback: They require the subject's cooperation. In fact, to produce data that's useful, subjects must remain nearly motionless for at least ten minutes; a slight movement of the head or even a blinking of the eyes can compromise the accuracy of a scan. Moreover, forcing someone to remain immobile is not an option, because stress can alter the brain signals that are said to signify deception. Still, on at least one occasion, a military prosecutor at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo apparently thought enough about the technology's potential to contact a company in San Diego called No Lie MRI.

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • I am skeptical that such technology is going to be accurate. People can be psychopaths and chronic liars to the point that they believe their own delusions such that they are ubiquitous.

    • 2 years ago
  • MotherForTruth
  • MotherForTruth
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      MotherForTruth  

    • Great many innocent can be free if this invention used wisely but too often great inventions are misused. I am also wondering how the accuracy can be proven.

      The great challenge is to find the truth when someone like this 24 year old woman who gave her fiancé the sweets mixed with arsenic.

    • 2 years ago
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