what is the opinion of the judiciary on this?
Because of the risk of prejudice to the defendant inherent in the admission of photographs of the 'mug shot' variety, judges and prosecutors are required to 'use reasonable means to avoid calling the jury's attention to the source of such photographs used to identify the defendant. Admission of a defendant's mug shot is 'laden for characterizing the defendant as a careerist in crime.
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The US legal system has long held that mug shots can have a negative effect on juries. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held, "The double-shot picture, with front and profile shots alongside each other, is so familiar, from 'wanted' posters in the post office, motion pictures and television, that the inference that the person involved has a criminal record, or has at least been in trouble with the police, is natural, perhaps automatic."

According to the "Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence", "Because of the risk of prejudice to the defendant inherent in the admission of photographs of the 'mug shot' variety, judges and prosecutors are required to 'use reasonable means to avoid calling the jury's attention to the source of such photographs used to identify the defendant.'" (p. 617) Elsewhere, it cites a ruling in "Commonwealth v. Martin" that "admission of a defendant's mug shot is 'laden for characterizing the defendant as a careerist in crime.

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who was the scientist that expanded the use of relative bone lengths to a more reliable method Alphonse Bertillon what kind of applications does this discipline have? To help identify individuals from bones when other physical characteristics that could be used to identify a body no longer exist;  investigation of war crimes and mass fatality investigations. what is the name of the field of study this exercise falls under? Forensic anthropology can a person's age be figured out through this method? Yes - by examining the teeth, the clavicle, the number of bones, examining the bone osteons under a microscope what are some of the other contributions of the researcher you named above? He is also the inventor of the mug shot - a photographic portrait of a person from the waist up, typically taken after a person is arrested. how was the physical measurement system he invented put to use in real life? The Bertillon system consisted of five initial measurements — head length, head breadth, length of middle finger, length of the left foot, and length of the cubit. Along with these measurements, Bertillon used a mugshot, to complete this system of record. does this system have any drawbacks? It may not have been able to accurately apply to children or women, as it was mostly designed for men who had reached full physical maturity and had short hair. when was the kind of photographs you mentioned above first used? In 1843 and 1844. by whom? May have been taken in Belgium
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Mug shot [SEP] Prejudicial nature
The US legal system has long held that mug shots can have a negative effect on juries. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held, "The double-shot picture, with front and profile shots alongside each other, is so familiar, from 'wanted' posters in the post office, motion pictures and television, that the inference that the person involved has a criminal record, or has at least been in trouble with the police, is natural, perhaps automatic." According to the "Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence", "Because of the risk of prejudice to the defendant inherent in the admission of photographs of the 'mug shot' variety, judges and prosecutors are required to 'use reasonable means to avoid calling the jury's attention to the source of such photographs used to identify the defendant.'" (p.