Brain Fingerprinting Admissible in U.S. Court

Searching_ _ _ · Sep 9, 2009

On March 5, 2001 Pottawattamie County, Iowa District Court Judge Tim O'Grady ruled that Brain Fingerprinting® testing is admissible in court. Dr. Farwell conducted a Brain Fingerprinting test on Terry Harrington, who is serving a life sentence in Iowa for a 1977 murder. The test showed that the record stored in Harrington's brain did not match the crime scene and did match the alibi. Harrington filed a petition for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, including the Brain Fingerprinting test. On February 26, 2003 the Iowa Supreme Court reversed his murder conviction and ordered a new trial. The Iowa Supreme Court left undisturbed the law of the case establishing the admissibility of the Brain Fingerprinting evidence.
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What is Brain fingerprinting?

In a Brain Fingerprinting test, words, pictures or sounds describing salient features of a crime are presented by a computer, along with other, irrelevant information, that would be equally plausible for an innocent subject. Items are chosen that would be known only to the perpetrator and to investigators, but not to the public or to an innocent suspect. The subject is told which features he will see (e.g., the murder weapon), but is not told which item is correct (e. g, gun, knife, or baseball bat). When a subject recognizes something as significant in the current context, the brain emits a specific brain response. If the record of the crime is stored in the subject's brain, this response appears when the subject recognizes the correct, relevant items. If not, then the response is absent. A computerized mathematical analysis of the data determines whether or not the subject has knowledge of the salient details of the crime.
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http://www.brainwavescience.com/Ruled%20Admissable.php

All that is left for criminals to do is Stick their fingers in their ears, close their eyes, vocally repeat, "I'm not listening to you," until interrogators give up.
I wonder if the anyone has developed countermeasures for this method.

Nebulus · Sep 9, 2009

This is not very much different than polygraph test, where you measure a physical reaction to a set of stimuli. The difference is that here you see images on a computer, and for the lie detector you hear questions, but brain reactions are similar.

scott1256ca · Sep 9, 2009

All that is left for criminals to do is Stick their fingers in their ears, close their eyes, vocally repeat, "I'm not listening to you," until interrogators give up.
I wonder if the anyone has developed countermeasures for this method.
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See Clockwork Orange.

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