Tag: Sex Offense

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
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Alcohol Blackouts: What Every Attorney Should Know

Alcohol is often a central dynamic in claims of sexual assault. Dr. Simpson has taught this topic for the Air Force JAG school’s “Advanced Sexual Assault Litigation Course”, the State Bar of Arizona, and multiple Air Force legal offices stateside and around the world.

  • An overview of alcohol blackouts and sexual assault allegations
  • Fragmentary vs. En Bloc blackouts
  • Blackout vs. Passed Out
  • Alcohol’s effect on the nervous system
  • It not about “how much,” its about “how quickly”
  • Potentiation with over-the-counter and prescribed medications
  • How memory works
  • Can you tell when someone is in blackout?
  • Strategies for the prosecution
  • Strategies for the defense
  • Description of relevant research
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Assessing and Treating Compulsive Internet Use

From a national lecture series Dr. Simpson provided to legal, psychology and probation professionals.

  • Cybersex compulsions
  • Role-playing games
  • Social networking compulsions
  • Online gambling
  • Etiology of Internet compulsions
  • Assessment tools
  • Counseling strategies
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