Devine Sets The Record Straight

Former criminalist Elizabeth Devine recently revealed her pet peeves about the way the profession is presented on television.

"Nobody would ever eat or drink or do anything in the lab; that's what offices are for," Devine, who is now a co-producer on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, told the New York Post. Although eagle-eyed viewers may remember Dr. Robbins drinking coffee with Grissom in "Table Stakes", Devine said no one would be able to stomach sampling the good doctor's macchiatos with a dead body in the same room.

"I lost a couple battles, particularly Dr. Robbins eating in autopsy," she said. "There's just no way anyone would do that because it's so disgustingly gross in there and it smells terrible."

At least CSI doesn't have chalk outlines around dead bodies. Those are another no-no, according to Devine, who spent 15 years as a criminalist in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. "One of the things that frustrated me watching the cop genre for so many years was that people write crime scenes based on television crime scenes," Devine said. "That's why you see chalk around bodies. I don't know who started that. Nobody does that."

The complete article, which also includes comments from David Caruso (Horatio Caine) and Rory Cochrane (Tim Speedle), can be found at Yahoo! News.

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