Murderers Vs Psychopaths

“Do people really believe there’s something different about the eyes of murderers?”-Bill James. Murderers and psychopaths look just like everyday people. No one wants to think of their neighbor as capably of committing such a feat but it is always possible. Murders happen every day and those men and woman accused of being guilty have to go through a trial. That trial could go either way depending on the evidence presented and the way it is presented. Nowadays if someone attends a trial in court they will see the information being presented in more engaging and entertaining ways, such as “30-second sound bites and attention grabbers… animations, graphics, and videos” (Hsieh, 2012, para 2). This is because the world moves at a fast pace, attention spans are shorter, and lawyers have to adapt …show more content…
A trial can no longer consist of “strictly document-based” (Hsieh, 2012, para 6) evidence, the jury expects to be entertained, they don’t want to sit for hours listening to a lawyer go on and on about how their client is not guilty, instead they want to feel like they’re a part of the case, they want to see what the first responders saw, they want to hear how distressed the suspects, and witnesses sound. Lawyers may be more comfortable giving a clear cut argument, but the “jurors expect a courtroom display bordering on entertainment. Video games, smart phones, and legal TV shows have all fed these expectations. ‘Jurors have the expectation of all of the whiz- bang gadgetry of CSI: Miami and want to know why you can’t get a whole case done with less time for commercials,’ said Rubin Guttman” (Hsieh, 2012, para 1). If lawyers don’t provide the jury with what they want than they’ll end up boring them to death. Along with turning hard core evidence into