A Brooklyn judge has barred, apparently for the first time in New York, the use of a brain-scan technique in a recently concluded civil trial as evidence of a witness’ veracity.
Justice Robert J. Miller rejected the use of the 10-year-old technique, called functional magnetic resonance imaging because it was being offered to bolster the testimony of a key witness for a temporary office worker who claimed her agency had retaliated against her after she had complained that she had been sexually harassed on an assignment.
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