E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

After setting out the boilerplate on scope of discovery and requirements for a protective order, the Court wrote: “The burden is on the party resisting discovery to explain specifically why its objections, including those based on irrelevance, are proper given the broad and liberal construction of federal discovery rules.”

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Forensic Psychologist

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Judges rule that any weaknesses in his method should go to the “weight” that jurors give Dr. Harm’s opinions, rather than the admissibility of his tests. Attorneys may try to challenge him in court, but their protests usually fall flat. Psychological tests hold a magical allure as objective truth.

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Temple University Beasley School of Law - Advocacy

JULY 10, 2023

The constitutionally-permitted technique of seeking to prompt a confession by providing false incriminating evidence ( g. , “we have video showing you near the scene”) increases the risk of false confessions and at the least can alter a person’s memory of the event. “It Custody is a pivotal construct. No custody, no warnings.

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Forensic Psychologist

AUGUST 14, 2016

Under the Frye evidentiary standard , designed to bar novel scientific methods that are not sufficiently validated, a construct must be “generally accepted” by the relevant scientific community before it can be relied upon in legal proceedings. A year later, relying on similar evidence, a judge in upstate New York ruled in State v.

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Forensic Psychologist

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Similar evaluator variability was evident when the researchers zoomed in on OSPD diagnoses in which either hebephilia or nonconsent were proffered as its basis. for example, the court wrote : “This Court cannot help but ask, if this disorder exists, why isn't there convincing evidence that it exists outside the realm of civil commitment?

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