> Study after study has found that attempts – even by trained police officers – to read lies from body language and facial expressions are more often little better than chance.
Yet juries in rape trials supposedly do it all the time...or don't they?
Rape is interesting in this regard because it is an especially severe crime that might be very hard to proof. Murder has a body and a weapon, but rape might be indistinguishable from consensual sex, when you just look at hard physical evidence (medical examination, text messages, ...). If you want to give justice to most rape victims, you have to decide who is lying, and who is saying the truth.
> If you want to give justice to most rape victims, you have to decide who is lying, and who is saying the truth.
It is also possible that both victim and rapist are telling the truth, but it still is an open question if it's a rape. Example: Julian Assange case with the broken condom.
Yet juries in rape trials supposedly do it all the time...or don't they?