Percentage of Jurors Who Expect Scientific Evidence From Prosecution

This exhibit appears in the article "The 'CSI Effect': Does It Really Exist?," published in March of 2008.

Scientific evidence of some kind is expected in every case by 46% of the jurors, in murder cases by 74%, in assault cases by 43%, in rape cases by 73%, in breaking and entering cases by 49%, in theft cases by 38%, and in crimes involving a gun by 55%. Fingerprint evidence is expected in every case by 36% of the jurors, in murder cases by 61%, in assault cases by 35%, in rape cases by 41%, in breaking and entering cases by 71%, in theft cases by 59%, and in crimes involving a gun by 66%. Ballistics evidence is expected in every case by 32% of the jurors, in murder cases by 62%, in assault cases by 23%, in rape cases by 18%, in breaking and entering cases by 17%, in theft cases by 16%, and in crimes involving a gun by 77%. DNA evidence is expected in every case by 22% of the jurors, in murder cases by 46%, in assault cases by 28%, in rape cases by 73%, in breaking and entering cases by 18%, in theft cases by 12%, and in crimes involving a gun by 17%.