Through a Scanner Darkly: Functional Neuroimaging as Evidence of a Criminal Defendant's Past Mental States
As with phrenology and the polygraph, we are again confronted with a device that the media claims to be capable of reading our minds. This new device is functional magnetic resonance imaging ("fMRI"), and it is currently being introduced to negate a criminal defendant's mens rea, such as the specific intent to kill. In this paper we will demonstrate that fun
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