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Kassin and Garfield (1991) investigated whether jurors are influenced by crime scene videotapes. As part of the presentation of a murder case, some jurors viewed a crime scene videotape of close-ups of a bloodied young man who had been stabbed to death and left lying in the street. Other jurors did not see the crime scene video. Jurors viewing the crime scene video…