Stephen ‘Shorty’ Jamieson has been behind bars since 1988. Fresh research critically examines the confession that put him there.
- Director of the Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence, The University of Melbourne
Indistinct forensic audio is often ‘enhanced’ to make it sound clearer. But how effective are the techniques that are used? A new experiment suggests they can be highly misleading.
Not all false beliefs arise from malicious misinformation. Some legal precedents rest on the status of everyday ‘common knowledge’, since shown to be false, but embedded in our law nonetheless.
Today, we take it for granted that police interviews with suspects will be electronically recorded and independently transcribed. That hasn’t always been the case. Police were once allowed to testify…
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