Hi. I'm Jason Flam and I'm the host of Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flam And I'm Robbiah Audrey, attorney and co host of Undisclosed. So today we want to talk to you about your civic duty and your responsibility if you are chosen to be a juror in a trial. So we know, Robbia, we're all eligible for jury. Do we all get those notices the mail time to time and it's you know, usually a big imposition. Everybody feels like, oh damn, I got so many other things to do.
But I want to urge everyone to try to change your attitude about this. We should all view jury duty as an opportunity to be a very necessary watchdog for those in power and to make sure that real justice is done. And that takes each and every one of us. So, if you're on a jury, if you're in the jury box and the case is a heavy one, what are some of the things that people should remember. So first of all, I want folks to remember to be skeptical
of expert testimony. One of the problems that we find now is that there's a c s I effect. People just think if something is quote scientific it means it's actually accurate and factually significant. But a lot of expert testimony is based on faulty science. Yes, it's junct sciences everywhere. But what about eyewitness accounts, memories, perceptions? What about that? I'm telling you the least reliable source of evidence is eye witness accounts, and so many of us has faulty memories.
Is really the I would say, the least reliable evidence in a trial. Right, Your mind is not a camera, and don't get confused to thinking that it is. What about confession testimony? Everyone believes confessions, right, Well, everybody believes they wouldn't confess to something they wouldn't do, But it's not true. Most of us are, in fact, very susceptible to coercion. Don't accept confession testimony to be accurate unless you have seen the entire interrogation and you know that
this person was non coerced. Right, everyone has a breaking point. And we know that up to thirty percent of exaggerations involved false confessions to crimes that these people didn't commit. So yeah, change your attitude about that entirely right now. Okay,
and what about lineup and photo array evidence? Are those reliable? Yeah, you want to be skeptical of lineup and photo ray evidence because sometimes people can say that's him, that's definitely him, and then other times, you know, they might be led on by a cop who's saying, well, look, maybe he doesn't look like the others, but what about this one. I mean, this is the one that makes my blood boil. But how about snitch testimony? Snitch testimony get out of
here always almost always incentivized. You have somebody in prison who's trying to get something exchange for this testimony. Not reliable, it's crazy, right, they offer people years off their sentence or even to drop all their charges of exchange that testifying against somebody else, So that testimony, it shouldn't even be allowed. To learn more and get involved. Listen to Wrongful Conviction Podcasts one of my favorite podcasts, and don't
forget to listen to Undisclosed. There's so much in that podcast. Every time you listen, you're gonna find some new stuff that you'll be talking about around the water cooler. Remember, as a juror, this is your responsibility, right, So it's almost like a juror's bill of rights. And the more you understand, the better the chances that will get actual justice, that will have a fairer system for everyone,