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Showing posts with label Expert Testimony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Expert Testimony. Show all posts
Friday, July 25, 2025

Crossing the Line: Daubert, Dual Roles, and the Admissibility of Forensic Mental Health Testimony

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Gordon, S. G. (2016). SSRN Electronic Journal. Scholarly Works. 969. Link is here. Abstract Psychiatrists and other mental health professio...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

The Supreme Court upholds the conviction of woman who challenged expert testimony in a drug case

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Lindsay Whitehurst apnews.com originally posted 20 June 24 The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a California woman who sai...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

We Must Rethink the Role of Medical Expert Witnesses

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Amitha Kalaichandran Scientific American Originally posted 5 May 21 Here are two excerpts: The second issue is that the standard used by the...
Friday, March 20, 2020

Flawed science? Two efforts launched to improve scientific validity of psychological test evidence in court

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Karen Franklin forensicpsychologist Blog Originally posted 15 Feb 20 Here is an excerpt: New report slams "junk science” psycholo...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Expertise in Child Abuse?

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Dr. Woods, from a YouTube video Mike Hixenbaugh & Taylor Mirfendereski NBCnews.com Originally posted 14 Feb 20 Here is an excerp...
Monday, December 2, 2019

Neuroscientific evidence in the courtroom: a review.

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Aono, D., Yaffe, G. & Kober, H. Cogn. Research 4, 40 ( 2019) doi:10.1186/s41235-019-0179-y Abstract The use of neuroscience in the...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

Brain science should be making prisons better, not trying to prove innocence

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Arielle Baskin-Sommers theconversaton.com Originally posted November 1, 2017 Here is an excerpt: Unfortunately, when neuroscientific a...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Cognitive Bias in Forensic Mental Health Assessment: Evaluator Beliefs About Its Nature and Scope

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Zapf, P. A., Kukucka, J., Kassin, S. M., & Dror, I. E. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law Abstract Decision-making of mental heal...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Medical Evidence Debated

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Ralph Bartholdt Coeur d’Alene Press  Originally posted October 27, 2017 Here is an excerpt: “The point of this is not that he had a ch...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Procedural ruling sets higher bar for expert-witness testimony

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Brendan Murphy AMA Wire Originally posted August 9, 2017 In a procedural decision that could keep so-called junk science out of the cour...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Justices Blast One-Stop-Shop Experts in Alabama

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Tim Ryan Courthouse News Originally posted April 24, 2017 The Supreme Court’s liberal justices shredded an argument by Alabama’s solicit...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Expert Witness Testimony in Civil Commitment Hearings for Sexually Dangerous Individuals

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Jennifer E. Alleyne, Kaustubh G. Joshi and Marie E. Gehle J ournal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online June 2016, 44 (...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Junk Science on Trial

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Jordan Smith The Intercept Originally posted May 6 2016 Here is an excerpt: Expert Infallibility? The Supreme Court's opinion ma...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Reversing the legacy of junk science in the courtroom

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By Kelly Servick Science Magazine Originally published March 7, 2016 Here is an excerpt: Testing examiner accuracy using known samples...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

The Brain Gets Its Day in Court

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By Greg Miller The Atlantic Originally published February 29, 2016 Here is an excerpt: A handful of cases have made headlines in recen...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

“Soft” vs. “Hard” Psychological Science in the Courtroom

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By Geoffrey D. Munro and Cynthia A. Munro The Jury Expert Originally published May 31, 2015 Background The terms "soft science...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

Montco woman, Temple professor not a licensed psychologist

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By Jo Ciavaglia Bucks County Courier Times Originally posted February 4, 2015 Susan Schecter-Cornbluth swore under oath that she was a p...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Does Moral Responsibility Come in Degrees?

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By Justin Caouette Flickers of Freedom Blog Originally published January 14, 2015 Here are two excerpts: I think Mele is right to say ...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Prosecutor questions ethics of Jodi Arias witness

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By Megan Cassidy The Arizona Republic via USA Today Originally published November 26, 2014 Prosecutor Juan Martinez on Tuesday continued...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Texas pair released after serving 21 years for 'satanic abuse'

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Dan and Fran Keller, sentenced in 1991 for child sexual assault during US 'Satanic panic' era, released after district attorney conc...