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Kosslyn and Rosenthal said the department hascurrently offered someone a tenured position as asocial psychologist and was waiting to hear fromthat person, whom they declined to identify...
...initial concerns may be quite genuine and shared by many other citizens. "There is almost always a kernel of truth to the false beliefs that these groups hold," says Dennis Johnson, a clinical psychologist and head of Behavior Analysts & Consultants, in Stuart, Florida. "Perhaps [it is] a piece of legislation they can point to and say, 'Here, look. Here's our justification.'" But then they look beyond that trigger and see a world that is painful, malevolent and out to get them...
Sequestration is always difficult, notes psychologist Valerie Hans, author of Judging the Jury. But the O.J. jurors have been subjected to "one of the most intrusive juror questionnaires I have ever seen. It asked many private questions.'' Watching fellow jurors being investigated and dismissed--in one case the juror's hotel room was searched--has only exacerbated the panel's feeling that they have lost their privacy and, like O.J., are under arrest. Says noted defense attorney Leslie Abramson: "They're being guarded by people who are used to treating everyone like prisoners. They need crisis counseling.'' But, adds Abramson...
...sense, the fact that 13 jurors (including the white woman and black man alleged to have been involved in a racial incident) joined the protest is heartening evidence that the group is bonding, as most juries do, and can agree on a course of action. But, cautions psychologist Hans, it does not bode well that they are "bonding against the court...
Relying primarily on the statements of the friends and attorneys(and a psychologist hired by her attorney to exonerate her in court), the "pro-reform" elements see a Gina Grant who has been reformed into a model citizen. On the other side stand the "law-and-order" people who look at the brutality of the case and the lack of documented physical abuse. They see not a self-made honors student but a self-made orphan...