Articles You Should Have
Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science, Pages 19-20
Two specific pages that discuss Important exoneration statistics from the DOD based on DNA evidence.
Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science. Lundregan
The full report from the the DOD on defendants exonerated by DNA.
COUNTERING Counterintuitive Testimony (Adult, handout)
Often prosecution utilizes a counterintuitive “expert” to explain away problematic behaviors on the part of the complaining witness. Dr. Simpson offers a CLE training and 85-page handout on how to effectively challenge their expert.
- Seven specific strategies for cross
- A cure for a non-problem
- Accounting for true, unfounded, or false sexual assault claims
- Symptoms are not falsifiable
- Motivations for intentional false reporting
- Failure to account for confounding variables
- Confirmation bias
- The devil is in the details.
- Critique of:
- Freeze-Flight-Fight and Tonic Immobility
- Acting normal following the alleged assault
- Delayed disclosure
- Continued relationship with the accused
- Inconsistent, piecemeal, changing or incomplete memories
- Recantation
Explaining Counterintuitive Victim Behavior in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Cases
An article that promotes counterintuitive claims.