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Mess lauren. Its an awful start to the morning. Ill have more on that coming up in just a few. But lynette the weather. I spent i spent so much extra time scraping that you have ice and snow on the windshield. I know. It was coming through and temperatures dropped. So thats why were dealing with the icy seasons this morning. That could be the conditions this morning. That could be the reason for the delays this morning. So reduced visibility with patchy fog. We pretty much have it all but into t...

Actions, not for bad preferences and desires. So then the question is, how do we take account for preferences and desires that may be outside of your control . That may be things like gray matter lighten kent showed us that showed us that people like psychopaths have decreased gray matter in particular regions of their brain. It could be Something Like the guy who he was talking about out of virginia who had the large tumor in his brain and chose to act on but didnt have control over having the ...

Like the science of fingerprints. No two people have the same fingerprint. Thats the scientific premise. Is that true . I thought so. In the Casey Anthony trial. In fact there is no nationl standard for any forensic testimony. The judge allowed in the smell test when it comes to death . And it had never been allowed in a court. And what about getting certified in forensics . You can do that online. If you want a certificate that says you are certified in forensics, this is the place to go to. To...

Testimony. The judge allowed in the smell test when it comes to death . And it had never been allowed in a court. And what about getting certified in forensics . You can do that online. If you want a certificate that says you are certified in forensics, this is the place to go to. Tonight ofrontline, correspondent Lowell Bergman joins with propublica in an investigation of one of the increasingly controversial tools of the criminal Justice System Forensic Science. There is something that people ...

Testimony. The judge allowed in the smell test when it comes to death . And it had never been allowed in a court. And what about getting certified in forensics . You can do that online. If you want a certificate that says you are certified in forensics, this is the place to go to. Tonight ofrontline, correspondent Lowell Bergman joins with propublica in an investigation of one of the increasingly controversial tools of the criminal Justice System Forensic Science. There is something that people ...

Should we have better sentencing schemes or get rid of incarceration and come up with different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. I think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will . Well, the fact that almost everybody in the audience raised either their right or left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. That to me says, yes, there is. Now what do we want to do about it . Now that we understand th...

You can. The law has a bright line. It says if you engage in a wongful action, there is a defense called the insanity defense which never works as most of us know because we dont recognize it. Should we recognize it, thats an interesting question. Should we have a more robust concept of diminished responsibility in light of the understanding that some people have less control over their preferences and desires or should we have better sentencing schemes or get rid of incarceration and come up wi...

Left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. That to me says, yes, there is. Now what do we want to do about it . Now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have control over it, how do we want to account for that if at all in the criminal Justice System . To date, we havent. In the future, we may wish to. I agree with that. I think that, first of all, the fact that everybody in the audience could control themselves ...

Incarceration. Are there certainly people who we actually think would be better off in prison than not being in prison . Those types of decisions, i think, are going to be much more useful coming out of the neuroscience in the near term. In the long term, maybe we can get to the point where we make individualized decisionmaking, but so far it hasnt actually panned out. To all of you, do you think that it would be appropriate to keep this out of the courtroom, for instance, until there is a lot m...

Incarceration. Are there certainly people who we actually think would be better off in prison than not being in prison . Those types of decisions, i think, are going to be much more useful coming out of the neuroscience in the near term. In the long term, maybe we can get to the point where we make individualized decisionmaking, but so far it hasnt actually panned out. To all of you, do you think that it would be appropriate to keep this out of the courtroom, for instance, until there is a lot m...