Would there be any benefit to the state to challenge the accuracy of the PowerPoint quotations being used by Dr. Richard Samuels?
Typos aside, it appears that Samuels is deliberately misleading and inaccurate in citing his sources. The PPT slide attributed to Transient Amnesic Syndromes, Bartsch and Butler is from a paper entitled The Syndrome of Transient Epileptic Amnesia by Christopher R. Butler, 2008, for his doctoral dissertation.
"In the former, there is a temporally circumscribed amnesia for a specific and usually emotionally charged event such as a criminal offence. The degree of amnesia is proportional to the violence of the offence, and up to 30% of convicted homicide cases have amnesia claimed at trial (Pyszora et al., 2003)." (page 33).
http://lac-repo-live7.is.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/4160
The last sentence on the slide is not within this article; a web search yielded nothing.
So would a juror be disqualified if he/she were to google transient global amnesia or PTSD, for example?
Willmott asked the Judge for no "speaking objections". What does that mean? What is the alternative?
When the judge was listening to defense and prosecution arguments withOUT the jury present (see the end of part 2 of croakerqueen day 32 jodi trial youtube) and then she makes decisions about this psychologist/defense/witness, namely" Had he given Jodi therapy?", why didn't someone - judge, prosecutor, defense - ask to have the witness LEAVE the courtroom?? It did not seem right at all that the witness got to be present for all of those arguments, because, to me, it sure seems it would taint the witness' testimony, because the witness got to hear the prosecution's arguments in advance ?? !! ?? Explain why no one ordered that psychologist out of the courtroom while the attorneys argued.
I have a textbook that states a forensic psychologist as an expert witness can only make a "diagnosis" based on statutes which is different from a clinical setting where a psychiatrist makes a diagnosis to determine a course of treatment. So why was he allowed to read DSM-V to the jury?
Question for our lawyers-
What's your opinion on the expert witness debacle? By her attorneys allowing this aren't they failing to represent her to the best of their ability?
Will she have grounds for appeal?
TIA
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I posted this earlier, but can't see where it was answered: Why is there no charge for Abuse of Corpse since Jodi kept stabbing him after he was already dead? tia
Why didn't the prosecutors put a string of friends/colleagues character witnesses on the stand to testify on Travis' behalf? Especially to refute allegations of pedo, sexual deviant and violent tendancies?
...(and sorry in advance if I have just missed all that. I can't find testimony other than a couple of girlfriends). Thanks.
Question for our lawyers-
What's your opinion on the expert witness debacle? By her attorneys allowing this aren't they failing to represent her to the best of their ability?
Will she have grounds for appeal?
TIA
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