Defense lawyer Norman Steiner has seen the way “CSI” has changed criminal courtrooms.
“I remember back to the ’90s when we were doing a lot of buy and bust cases,” he said. The defense would always ask why law enforcement hadn’t looked for fingerprints on the plastic bags containing drugs, but “it never worked back then. Half the judges would sort of make a face when you were making the argument. They were like, ‘You’re crazy, no one’s going to do that on a drug case.’ The only time fingerprinting occurred was on burglary and in homicide cases, and jurors were fine with it.”
‘CSI’ has ruined the American justice system ‘CSI’ has ruined the American justice system View Article