Issue 2 · Article 1 · The Clancy case
An expert told Lindsay Clancy's jury why her hospital chart read 82.1°F. Nobody asked when the reading was taken, where on the body or on what device—and on the court's own clock, even a body producing no heat at all ends six degrees warmer.
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The cube could have killed them. It wanted them alive.
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Governments are again lowering the age at which a child can be tried, and reaching for science to settle it. Developmental evidence can show that young children distinguish harm from broken rules; it cannot tell a court what one child deserves.
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