Word: experts
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This week the prosecution will ask the jury to take Patty at her recorded word, but the defense will argue that her denial of brainwashing was itself a product of a powerful and pervasive mindbending. Expert witnesses for both sides will wrestle with a concept of coerced behavior that evokes memories of zombie-like American P.O.W.s and the Communist show trials in which psychologically conditioned defendants zealously confessed to crimes they could not possibly have committed...
...Joel Fort, 46, a highly controversial San Francisco physician and criminologist who has served as an expert witness in more than 300 criminal trials, including those of Charles Manson, Timothy Leary and Lenny Bruce...
...enemies. Affable and softspoken, with a thick Hunanese accent, Hua is described by foreign visitors as politically adroit and nondoctrinaire. It helped that he comes from Mao's native province of Hunan, where he spent most of his career as a high regional party official and became an expert in agriculture, which is the backbone of China's economy. Significantly, he went to Peking just after former Defense Minister Lin Piao tried to overthrow Mao in 1971. Mao at that time was presumably trying to bring trusted officials to the capital. In 1973, Hua was named...
...degree in 1960, the headlines in Massachusetts were filled with the case of George Edgerly, a Lowell auto mechanic accused of murdering his wife and then chopping up her body. By mistake, Edgerly's ailing defense attorney had agreed to the admission of a polygraph test that an expert claimed proved Edgerly's guilt. The lawyer desperately looked around for anyone who knew enough about relatively new techniques to cross-examine the supposed expert. Bailey happened to be studying polygraphs for another client's defense. Barely three months after his admission to the bar, he got what he called...
Ross Terrill, associate professor of Government and an expert on East Asian affairs, said yesterday that he and many others had expected Teng Hsiao-ping, senior deputy premier and de facto premier for the past year during Chou's illness, to be named to succeed Chou...