If mind-reading was invented, would it be legal to use in court?

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Only for certain cases. (Post what)
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Trinick.

December 07, 2012, 09:00:16 PM
Polygraph tests are valid in court, though not hard evidence. So, yes. They would be allowed.

However, since it is illegal to force a person to testify against themselves, it would have to be consensual.

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fred da kiko

December 07, 2012, 09:05:13 PM
you can cheat a polygraph test.

WALK2222

December 07, 2012, 09:06:10 PM

Trinick.

December 07, 2012, 09:09:56 PM
Quote from: fred da kiko on December 07, 2012, 09:05:13 PM
you can cheat a polygraph test.
Quote from: Trinick. on December 07, 2012, 09:00:16 PM
Polygraph tests are valid in court, though not hard evidence.

fred da kiko

December 07, 2012, 09:13:31 PM
Quote from: Trinick. on December 07, 2012, 09:09:56 PM

i know, i was just saying you can cheat them. You could also cheat the current technology we have to decipher brain waves.

dkamm65

December 07, 2012, 09:17:55 PM
Quote from: ultimamax on December 07, 2012, 08:31:14 PM
but the thing is if it's undetectable they could read your mind illegally and use that not as evidence but to learn things about a crime, had you done them. e.g (they read where you hid the bodies, next day they find the bodies with your fingerprints)

Illegally obtained evidence is inadmissible in court.

lcyGamma

December 07, 2012, 09:22:47 PM
Using such technology would never be legal.

People who are taken to court with near indisputable evidence can sometimes be let go if the evidence isn't lawfully obtained. It happens.

To read people's minds would be a travesty. And there would always be doubt, the courts probably couldn't accept it as a stable way of getting evidence-- anyone could make up thoughts, or accidentally think something stupid under pressure.
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