Every level of the Justice System has a specific type of court. Each court is responsible for settling disputes. Every dispute relies heavily on witness accounts. Technology has added another “witness” in the form of video cameras for every phone, room, vehicle, and street. But, the interpretation of the recorded information is still dependent on knowing if the camera captured a portion, or all, of the “eye witness” information. All accounts of “eye witness” experiences require confirmation from more than one source.
The translation of the meaning of the “eye witness” account is the task of the judge, jury, and, technology. Technology can measure heart rate, changes in the eye dilation, changes in the voice, changes in body temperature, and posture, etc. The previous limitations of the lie detector are either being exorcised or manipulated by the increased capacity of technology. The 21st century witness must be trained to equalize the situation; or justice will be lost to the “programmer” of the technology.
Lawyers have the task of making sure that a witness can effectively participate in the court procedures, regardless of the witness’s understanding of the protocol of a court system.
The 21st century court room has already changed the capacity to have a witness’s behavior in a court procedure be misinterpreted. Considering the current technological “lie detector” the lawyer can only hope that the witness can be “seen” by technology as reliable. The technology far exceeds the “story” about human behavior. Every day, science is learning what psychology and psychiatry has not known about what determines human behaviors. For example, modern technology science has proven that 14 previous generations of your famial lineage’s experiences interpret what actions any and every human is to take to “survive” and or “thrive”.