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Article: Computer technology helps win cases.(Courts in the 21st Century)(Cover Story)
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- Trial
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 American Association for Justice, formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA®). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Jurors are accustomed to learning most of what they know about the world beyond their neighborhood from a television screen. A growing number of them also have learned to research and use information from the screen of a computer monitor.
Attorneys now have the means to present evidence to jurors in this familiar and effective manner. Using video players and large-screen color monitors or projection screens, a lawyer can present jurors with persuasive images of documents, photographs, cutaway views of products, animated re-creations of events, charts, diagrams, and maps. Monitor screens can also show videotaped depositions, filmed accident or crime sites, and ...