Brooklyn Lawyer to Enter Brain Scan as Court Evidence for Client's Veracity
Lie Down No Lie MRI scans brain activity with fMRI to identify deceit patterns. Graham BlairThe case could represent a legal precedent for sorting out truth from falsehood in a court of law Brain scans may become accepted evidence in a civil trial for the first time, if a Brooklyn lawyer gets his way, Wired reports.The case could set a legal precedent for allowing brain scans as evidence to determine whether or not a person is telling the truth. The lawyer, David Levin, represents a woman who claims that she no longer received good assignments from a temp agency after she complained of sexual harassment at a job site. A coworker at the temp agency claimed he heard a supervisor say the woman should not be placed on jobs because of the complaint. That prompted Levin to have the coworker undergo a functional magnetic-resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scan by the company Cephos,...