TY - JOUR T1 - Constitutional rights and hypnotically elicited testimony JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law SP - 149 LP - 154 VL - 27 IS - 1 AU - AW Newman AU - JW Thompson, Jr Y1 - 1999/03/01 UR - http://jaapl.org/content/27/1/149.abstract N2 - Despite the former popularity of hypnosis as a way of "improving" eyewitness memory, many courts almost always regard the use of this testimony to be inadmissible, whereas others allow it only when strict procedural guidelines have been followed. Although the U.S. Supreme Court recognized a defendant's constitutional right to admit his own hypnotically elicited testimony, others have recognized a constitutional basis to exclude hypnotically elicited testimony in most other circumstances. ER -