You might think attractive people get preferential treatment in life—and research suggests you'd be right. Some psychologists have shown this can even help people get a lighter prison sentence. More recently, however, our ...
Feb 1, 2024
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Researchers have found that defendants who don't "swear by Almighty God" when in court run a higher risk of being found guilty by jurors who themselves swear by God.
Apr 4, 2023
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The criminal justice system (CJS) is failing autistic people, argue researchers at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, after a survey of lawyers found that an overwhelming majority of their clients were not ...
Mar 15, 2022
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Sophisticated brain imaging, like an MRI, has limited applicability in assessing a defendant's sanity, investigators say.
Jan 31, 2020
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A New York judge on Wednesday scheduled what could be the second state-level trial in the U.S. on the toll of opioids.
Nov 7, 2019
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Four former employees and an owner of the Massachusetts facility responsible for a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people and sickened hundreds were convicted Thursday of fraud and other offenses.
Dec 13, 2018
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has been ordered to pay $10 million to the mother of a boy whose bacterial meningitis wasn't promptly diagnosed despite multiple emergency room visits.
Nov 18, 2015
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Never underestimate the staying power of big tobacco.
Feb 21, 2015
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(AP)—A Danish man has been acquitted of molesting two 17-year-old girls after he was found to suffer from a rare sleep disorder known as "sexsomnia."
Apr 10, 2013
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(HealthDay)—Laser hair removal is the most commonly litigated cutaneous laser surgery procedure, with physicians being named as defendants even when not performing the procedure, according to research published in the February ...
Mar 1, 2013
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