Legal precedent based on false beliefs proves hard to overturn
- Written by Helen Fraser, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England
False beliefs about language and speech underlie legal precedents that allow jurors to be “assisted" by unreliable transcripts of forensic audio.The Everett Collection/Shutterstock
This article is part of an ongoing series from the Post-Truth Initiative, a Strategic Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Sydney. The series...
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