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And yet.. Advertising works -- at least partially by mechanisms that do not belong in jury trials.

• humanrebar 12y ago
  What exactly are the mechanisms that do not belong in jury trials? What in concept is so bad about attorneys using AV presentations to make their points? If the objection is that the prosecutor is labeling the defendant as guilty, isn't that the job of the prosecutor? And why can't defendants use AV presentations to portray their clients as innocent or point out contradictions by the prosecution?
  • msandford 12y ago
    The bad part is that prosecutors are generally held in regard in the community while defendants are not. Further things which are written down often seem more factual than things which are spoken. Combine the two and you've seriously un-leveled the playing field between prosecution and defense. And that's before you consider that many defendants don't have the means to pay for their lawyer and thus are represented by overworked, underpaid public defenders.
  • _delirium 12y ago
    From a systems-design perspective, the question would be what effect prosecutors using AV presentations in this way has on conviction accuracy. Imo an important design goal of the criminal-justice system is to have a very low rate of false positives, and secondarily a low rate of false negatives. Whether trials should be set up to allow the lawyers to use AV-enhanced presentations is that question that, for me, turns on what effect it has on those statistics.