{"id":63991,"date":"2008-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/law-professor-to-lecture-sept-26-about-dilemmas-in-forensic-evidence-at-uri-seminar\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T00:00:00","slug":"law-professor-to-lecture-sept-26-about-dilemmas-in-forensic-evidence-at-uri-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/09\/law-professor-to-lecture-sept-26-about-dilemmas-in-forensic-evidence-at-uri-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Law professor to lecture Sept. 26 about dilemmas in forensic evidence at 溏心vlog免费B站 seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I.- September 18, 2008- A Hofstra University law professor will discuss, \u201cLegal Dilemmas in Forensic Evidence\u201d on Friday, Sept. 26 at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Forensic Science Seminar.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHofsta Law School Professor J. Herbie DiFonzo\u2019s lecture will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Pastore Hall, 51 Lower College Road, Room 124 and is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nDiFonzo will discuss how popular television shows such as CSI have glorified forensic science and how this may be influencing jurors in criminal cases. He will shine a light on the \u201cCSI Effect\u201d and whether it is, in fact, changing the perceptions of jurors and the way that attorneys present their cases. With the notable exception of DNA typing, several widely used forensic techniques may be scientifically unreliable and lacking in validity. He will explain that even though DNA analysis is currently the most valuable forensic tool, it is still subject to human error. DiFonzo will offer a healthy dose of skepticism and objectivity in evaluating the legal dilemmas in forensic evidence.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nDiFonzo has had a long career as a federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney.  As a law professor at Hofstra University, he directed the Criminal Justice Clinic for eight years.  In 2005, he presented the Distinguished Faculty Lecture at Hofstra University, entitled \u201cThe Surprising Unreliability of DNA Evidence: A Tale of Bad Labs and Good Statutes of Limitations.\u201d  Recent published articles include \u201cThe Crimes of Crime Labs,\u201d and (with Ruth C. Stern), \u201cDevil in a White Coat: The Temptation of Forensic Evidence in the Age of CSI.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I.- September 18, 2008- A Hofstra University law professor will discuss, \u201cLegal Dilemmas in Forensic Evidence\u201d on Friday, Sept. 26 at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Forensic Science Seminar. &#13; Hofsta Law School Professor J. Herbie DiFonzo\u2019s lecture will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Pastore Hall, 51 Lower College Road, Room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}