Word: expert
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When pressed for the names of outside authorities who were consulted in the Pentagon's review of the proposed ABM system, Packard produced only one-that of Stanford University's Wolfgang Panofsky, an electronics and radar expert. The name was hardly...
Prosecutor David Fitts peppered the diminutive professor with hostile questions, but he could not blunt the thrust of Diamond's testimony about murder in a trance. A far-out tale? Perhaps. A grave problem of determining mental health in criminal trials is that expert witnesses are almost always available to back up either prosecution or defense with their testimony (see BEHAVIOR). After two more psychologists declared that Sirhan suffers from grave mental disorders, avuncular Attorney Grant Cooper rested for the defense. And though a handwriting expert called by the prosecution saw no evidence that Sirhan's diary...
...Sirhan trial, admitted that the jury might have trouble believing his testimony that Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy while in a self-induced hypnotic trance. To the layman, this would be an "absurd, preposterous story, unlikely and incredible," he allowed. The reputation of psychiatric wisdom was certainly smudged when another expert witness at the trial, Psychologist Martin Schorr, admitted that he had relied heavily on the terminology of another man's book to formulate his own description of Sirhan's state of mind. No wonder that one of Sirhan's attorneys carefully asked prospective jurors if they agreed...
Although the experts at the Sirhan trial are all fully qualified, the fact is that many of the best minds in the profession refuse to appear in court, on the grounds that they cannot give adequate and accurate testimony under the rigid rules of the adversary system. As a result, supposedly expert opinion as to a defendant's mental state is sometimes put forward by second-rate practitioners with a talent for publicity...
Highly Suggestible. Once more Duke went to court to ask for a new trial. He produced expert witnesses, such as Dr. Herbert Spiegel of Manhattan (TIME, May 24), who have questioned the accuracy of any testimony given during or after hypnosis. Spiegel said that Caron's desire to cooperate with the Government, along with his own instability-he had tried suicide in his cell -made him a highly suggestible hypnotic subject. For example, Spiegel pointed out, Caron had remembered Miller's license plate only after all of the digits were suggested to him during the sessions. His identification...