Profile Evidence, Fairness, and the Risks of Mistaken Convictions.
Many oppose the use of profile evidence against defendants at trial, even when the statistical correlations are reliable and the jury is free from prejudice. The literature has struggled to justify this opposition. We argue that admitting profile evidence is objectionable because it violates what we...
| Publicado en: | Ethics Vol. 130; no. 2; pp. 147 - 179 |
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University of Chicago Press
Jan2020
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