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