Should Judges Worry About the “CSI Effect”?

These days it still seems like everyone is talking about the “CSI effect.” Attorneys seem to talk about it all the time. The 258 different articles using the term between 2002 and 2008 that we found through a LexisNexis search are undoubtedly only the tip of the iceberg of media mentions of this supposed phenomenon. Even academics are writing about it— already a handful of books, several dissertations in progress, and numerous scholarly journal articles detail the topic.