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Would Truth Serum Work on James Holmes in the Aurora Shooting Trial?

Holmes Trial

Kent Sepkowitz on why the serum went out last century—and how it might cloud the James Holmes trial.

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The entire clumsy apparatus of the American judicial system is built to shake clean facts out of hesitant individuals. Judges hear testimony, lawyers argue, and juries sit, weighing evidence as each tries to arrive at a simple bare-bones truth.

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