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Old May 4, 2012, 10:03 AM   #87
Glenn E. Meyer
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Crewcuts and appearance. Please before you expound - go look at the both the jury simulation literature and the legal literature.

You will see quite a bit about how appearances matter to a jury. Ignorance and snark is cute on the Internet and stupid in real life. Appearance influences don't make it into case law and searches for the most part but they do influence simulations. For example, there are studies about how eyeglasses can be to your benefit.

Now to crew cuts and military appearance. A few years ago CourtTV (as it was called in those days) had a trial of a police officer who shot a EDP who was waving a rake (IIRC). In pictures of him at the time, he had a crew or whatever you call that with that pancake of hair on your otherwise shaved head. Glaring into the camera into his official police phote.

Guess what he wore when he testifed. He had a three piece. His hair was grown up and styled in a business like manner. He took out reading glasses when he examined the exhibits.

Now why did he do that?
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