Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial"The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be shaped by suggestion? When people witness a serious automobile accident, how accurate is their recollection of the facts? If a witness is questioned by a police officer, will the manner of questioning alter the representation of the memory? Can memories be supplemented with additional, false information?" |
Contents
Trials of a Psychologist | 3 |
The Magic of the Mind | 14 |
The Cases | 31 |
Dark Justice Steve Titus | 33 |
The AllAmerican Boy Ted Bundy | 61 |
A Knock in the Door Timothy Hennis | 92 |
Out of the Mouths of Babes Tony Herrerez | 127 |
I Couldnt Do This to a Child Howard Haupt | 156 |
Sheer Stark Terror Clarence Von Briggs | 185 |
Ivan the Terrible John Demjanjuk | 210 |
A Mole and a Stutter Tyrone Briggs | 241 |
Selected References | 285 |