Scott v. Harris: The Supreme Court's Reality Effect

被引：3

作者：

Brooks, Peter ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

[2] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

来源：

LAW & LITERATURE | 2017年 / 29卷 / 01期

关键词：

police pursuit; Fourth Amendment; narrative; videotape; US Supreme Court; Antonin Scalia; reality effect; Roland Barthes;

D O I：

10.1080/1535685X.2016.1246910

中图分类号：

I [文学];

学科分类号：

05 ;

摘要：

In Scott v. Harris (2007), the Supreme Court for the first time posted a video on its website, as an appendix to its opinion. The assumption of the majority in this 8-1 decision is that the video speaks for itself; only Justice Stevens suggests otherwise. Looking at the video ourselves, we may want to ask why the Court reacts as it does. I argue that the reality effect of the video overcomes analytic judgment on the part of the Court majority. And, further, that this will become a larger problem as videos of police-citizen encounters are promoted as self-interpreting evidence.

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