Anyone know of a good source/materials for crime descriptions with ambiguous evidence for a juror decision making study?

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I am ideally looking for vignettes which describe dangerous crimes in a reasonable amount of detail, but without too much graphic detail, and where the evidence makes it unclear whether the defendant is guilty.

Mitch Brown

Rodriguez, D. N., & Berry, M. A. (2016). Sensitizing potential jurors to variations in eyewitness evidence quality using counterfactual thinking. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30(4), 600-612.

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