面目模糊的证据

• 作 者: 墨未白
• 出 处: 南方人物周刊
• 发表日期: 2007年25期
• 关键词: 斯皮尔 削尖 伯纳德 斯伯里 新闻发布厅 犯罪现场 系列操作 终身监禁 我爱 史蒂文

在20世纪初法医学刚进入成熟阶段时,西方公众常常把那些专家当传奇人物来崇拜。他们深感兴趣地阅读报章上的罪案报道——其时此类报道极为详尽——对经常“现身说法”的专家们则满怀敬畏。当年英国最受推崇的法医学家伯纳德·斯皮尔斯伯里每次到庭,新闻发布厅中的记者们都会赶忙削尖铅笔洗耳恭听。

At the beginning of the 20th century, forensic science was at a mature stage, and the western public often used those experts as legends to worship. They read with deep interest the coverage of crime stories in newspapers - at the time such reports were extremely exhaustive - and were full of reverence for the experts who often “spoke”. When Britain’s most admired forensic scientist Bernard Spearsbury came to the court each year, journalists in the press room quickly hurled their pencils and listened to them.