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For James Jabbour, who has worked in law enforcement for 24 years, investigating sexual assaults, murders and robberies is all in a day's work. And when the police inspector teaches his Ex College ...

Prosecutors can still question possible jurors about the “CSI effect,” the theory that jury members who have watched crime-based fictional television shows are less likely to convict without forensic ...

Law and order people call it “The CSI Effect.” We in the home audience have been so inundated with the micro-details of forensics since “CSI” changed the nature of crime stories in prime time that ...

If Stanley Liggins is granted a third trial in the 1990 brutal murder of a 9-year-old girl, the jury won't have much physical evidence to consider. And how that will play with a "CSI"-loving public ...

The Motor City recently joined a growing fraternity: cities with crime labs accused of making big mistakes. Detroit's mayor and police chief recently shut down the police crime lab after an outside ...

TV: DNA results come back in a few hours. Reality: Nuclear DNA can take several days to a week to process, and the samples are normally tested in batches that take about a month. It can take a month ...

WASHINGTON — The honeymoon is over between real-life crime scene investigators and the stars that play them in the immensely popular television show "CSI." Forensic scientists are now complaining ...