PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - AW Newman AU - JW Thompson, Jr TI - Constitutional rights and hypnotically elicited testimony DP - 1999 Mar 01 TA - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online PG - 149--154 VI - 27 IP - 1 4099 - http://jaapl.org/content/27/1/149.short 4100 - http://jaapl.org/content/27/1/149.full SO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1999 Mar 01; 27 AB - 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.