shows about police and law are popular and affect the way people see the courtroom. lawyers once blamed the legal drama Perry Mason for making juries hesitate to fine people guilty. Guilty people in Perry Mason usually make a dramatic admiission of guilt, and juries expected this to happen in real life. Today, people blame the crime show CSI for influencing juries. In CSI, evidence from a laboratory is always reliable, so juries place a lot of trust in certain kinds of evidence. this is called the "CSI Effect.