In what appears to be a first detection, defense lawyers offer based on fMRI lie as evidence of the innocence of their client in a court case in southern California. The Stanford Center for Law & Biosciences has the story:
The case is a child protection hearing conducted in the youth court. In short, and because the details of the case are sealed and sensitive, the question is whether a minor has suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a parent and guardian must remain removed from the home.
fMRI performed by No Lie MRI, a company that offers lie detection services brain-scan apparently found that the parent was telling the truth when he denied assaulting the child.
society says its proprietary software can identify deception by analyzing fMRI scans of brain activity collected as a subject answers questions posed by a technician.
No Lie MRI President Joel Huizenga would neither confirm nor deny the involvement of the company in this or any other case. Huizenga also refused to say whether there had been previous attempts to introduce the evidence presented by No Lie MRI in a court case, saying only that "it was never accepted nor refused the court."
Emily Murphy Stanford said the matter came to his attention when the prosecutor contacted Stanford search for information on the scientific validity of lie detection based on fMRI. many neuroscientists have serious doubts that the technology is ready for the legal affairs of the real world, and Murphy, said she and her colleagues are helping the prosecution to find appropriate expert witnesses to testify on his limits during the hearing of evidence, which has not yet fixed. "We really think that there are many people out there in the community who think it would be a very dangerous precedent if it were accepted," she said.
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