Word: experts
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...legal sparring began with a clash between defense and prosecution over whether Judge Oliver J. Carter should allow the jury to hear the testimony of Margaret Singer, a Berkeley psychologist who is an expert at analyzing speech patterns. Bailey wanted Singer to tell the jury that Patty had been reciting her captors' words when she recorded some of her startling messages on tapes that were sent back from the underground world of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Browning, in turn, argued that Singer's kind of testimony should not be heard because of a lack of both legal precedent...
When Singer finished, Judge Carter agreed with Browning that she should not be allowed to relate her findings to the jury. Said he: "This is a field which has never been accepted before as a subject on which expert testimony can be given...
...Bank's security cameras, which clearly showed Patty taking part in the robbery. The defense claimed that the prosecution's reproductions of the pictures left out S.L.A. Member Camilla Hall, who, Patty's lawyers argued, was pointing her carbine at the defendant. Vernon Kipping, the FBI expert who made a movie out of the pictures, testified that the exclusion was "inadvertent." He added that Hall did not seem to be covering Patty but was aiming her gun at the teller's windows. New photographs, including Hall, were shown to the jury, but Judge Carter denied...
Trying to show that Patty had not lived in constant fear of the Harrises, as she claimed, Browning put on the stand Ronald Furgerson, an FBI cryptology expert, who testified about a communications system used by the S.L.A. that was found in her handbag on the day of her arrest. The data, written in code on a card, gave the numbers of public telephones in the San Francisco area. A similar card was found on William Harris when he was arrested. Browning argued that the Harrises would never have given Patty such secrets unless they trusted her. The code...
...clothes and unmarked cars, patrolling special computerized routes. Murphy, the coordinator of the Force, feeds statistics on the time and locations of crimes into the Harvard Police computer, which then tells him what areas the Force should patrol at what times. Soon with the help of a Northeastern University expert, Murphy will evaluate the progress of the Task Force against the goals he set for it last month. And he is sure there is room for progress...