Black Robes, White Coats: The Puzzle of Judicial Policymaking and Scientific Evidence

Contents

List of Tables vii Introduction 1 1 The Mystery of the Gatekeepers 7 2 Clues to Judicial Behavior 14 3 Forensic DNA: Law Enforcement in the Laboratory 36 4 Lie Detection: Victim of Law and Politics 68 5 Syndrome Evidence: Science Isn’t Everything 105 6 Gatekeepers and the Politics of Knowledge 134 7 New Clues? Gatekeeping and the Twenty-first Century 143 Appendix A State Supreme Court Cases for Forensic DNA 165 Appendix B State Supreme Court Decisions for Polygraph Evidence 171 Appendix C State Supreme Court Decisions for Syndrome Evidence 177 Notes 181 Bibliography 183 Index 191 v C O N T E N T S ...