Trials & Litigation
New No-Lie MRI Could Be Evidence of the Future
Posted Mar 17, 2009, 04:30 pm CST
By Martha Neil
It appears unlikely that an effort to introduce a new No-Lie MRI test as evidence in a California juvenile sex-abuse case will succeed: To be accepted as evidence, such tests must be generally accepted as reliable in the scientific community, and the so-called fMRI scan being used by No-Lie MRI is new technology.
However, this new type of magnetic resonance imaging scan, which shows brain activity based on oxygen levels, may be the evidence of the future, according to Wired Science. The No-Lie MRI company says it is 90 percent accurate.
The article is sketchy on details of the case in which the evidence is at issue. It seems, though, that the defense in a California state-court criminal case is seeking to admit the No-Lie MRI as evidence that the alleged abuse did not occur.
Hat tip: In the News: Forensic Psychology, Criminology and Psychology-Law.
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