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LOS ANGELES, March 18 (UPI) -- The acquittal of Robert Blake in the death of his wife may have been at least partially a consequence of high-tech crime TV dramas.
The Los Angeles Times said Friday prosecutors nationwide were becoming leery of programs such as "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" that might be making jurors far less accepting of circumstantial evidence.
Blake was found innocent Wednesday after jurors rejected testimony from witnesses who claimed the actor tried to hire them to kill Bonny Lee Bakley and decided there wasn't enough physical evidence to back up the charges.
An official with the National District Attorneys Association told the newspaper prosecutors are concerned jurors are expecting an increasingly demanding about the quality of evidence.
Famed DNA lawyer Barry Scheck said there is an increasing public perception that police have highly sophisticated crime labs that can quickly turn up definitive evidence.
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