ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 April 1974
Page Count: 10

The Role of Forensic Jurisprudence in the Judicial Process
Matte, PJ
Director, Student Health Center, University of Arizona, Ariz.

(Received 12 March 1973; accepted 26 September 1973)

Abstract

The intent of this paper is a clarification of the role of forensic jurisprudence in the judicial process. Confronted with this task, one is left feeling rather like the man who has been persuaded to wrestle with an octopus: uncertain how best to begin. The question is most relevant to lawyers already engaged in that branch of the law which deals with evidence derived from the sciences and the scientifically based arts of our technological society. It seems therefore appropriate to focus initially on the confusion of roles and terminology, and the occasional conflicts of interest which are the inevitable lot of the lawyer who calls himself a forensic jurisprudent, and whose professional concerns include the conflicts of a society in collision with its technology.

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Paper ID: JFS10180J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS10180J
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