RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
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
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 149
OP 154
VO 27
IS 1
A1 AW Newman
A1 JW Thompson, Jr
YR 1999
UL http://jaapl.org/content/27/1/149.abstract
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.