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confuseacat) wrote2003-10-01 05:28 pm
confuseacat) wrote2003-10-01 05:28 pm
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So I'm studying psych:
You know, for all the wonderfully funny jokes made at New Jersey's expense, they're making some pretty smart psychology-based changes to their legal system. They're the first state to abandon the traditional six-pack lineup style for eye witnesses and switch over to sequential lineups. (People often feel like they have to pick one of the people in a lineup, which leads to tons of people being incorrectly convicted. In a sequential lineup, the witness is shown each suspect one by one.)
New Jersey also just passed a law making it vehicular homicide to be the cause of a car accident involving a death if you should be driving while asleep. No more blaming sleep deprivation. You shouldn't have been driving in the first place! There are a ridiculous number of needless deaths each year due to sleepy drivers who have microsleeps at the wheel.
You know, for all the wonderfully funny jokes made at New Jersey's expense, they're making some pretty smart psychology-based changes to their legal system. They're the first state to abandon the traditional six-pack lineup style for eye witnesses and switch over to sequential lineups. (People often feel like they have to pick one of the people in a lineup, which leads to tons of people being incorrectly convicted. In a sequential lineup, the witness is shown each suspect one by one.)
New Jersey also just passed a law making it vehicular homicide to be the cause of a car accident involving a death if you should be driving while asleep. No more blaming sleep deprivation. You shouldn't have been driving in the first place! There are a ridiculous number of needless deaths each year due to sleepy drivers who have microsleeps at the wheel.