alt Hacker NewsIronically, gait analysis is considered iron clad scientific evidence when used against impoverished black guys like in the Taylor trial.
Just kind of displays the. corruption and duplicity of the US legal system.
Ironically, gait analysis is considered iron clad scientific evidence when used against impoverished black guys like in the Taylor trial.
Just kind of displays the. corruption and duplicity of the US legal system.
There's a lot of junk "science" used in trials because there are plenty of "experts"[0] available to back it up for the prosecution and fewer funds to pay for the countervailing defense expert available to present the problems with it. Usually it takes a particularly bad case making it to a supreme or appeals court for that kind of evidence to be disallowed.
[0] The people paid to perform these analyses in the first place and then go testify convincingly for the prosecution about it but that's a whole separate rant.