Have you ever heard about The CSI effect (or CSI syndrome)?
Huge hit of CSI series changes not only market of soap opera but a court. after its debut, atmosphere of a court somewhat changed. juror is not what s/he used to be. jury demand prosecutor or plaintiff evidences more forensically sound.
CSI effect refers to juror's change of attitude.
with broadcasting of CSI, people begin to be interested in Forensics. and judy could play a important role in court regarding forensics.
here as where else, CSI series produce both good effect and advert effect. with CSI's performance, jury have a illusion that every evidences could be processed in forensically sound way in just 3 days. but it's almost impossible. and jury demand too many evidences though it's unconnected.
in brief, CSI effect is like below.
Investigator :
Investigator have to gather much more evidences.
but, they have no time, no money, no space to store evidences.
with small mistake in processing a evidence, they could not maintain a admissibility.
Juror :
s/he is smarter than before. s/he is a Quasi-expert.
but sometimes, s/he make an unreasonable demands to investigator.
Criminal :
now criminal knows how to escape, how to erase their trace and how to blur a admissibility.
they learned these from CSI!!
the judiciary impose the jury system since Feb 2008. actually, Korean jury system not a jury system but Schoffengericht system. it's system beyond reason. but, processing a digital evidences is almost identical of American's.
CSI effect would be a picture of Korea. we have to make a preparation for CSI effect.
