United States v. Awkard

GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

Five defendants, convicted of a prison murder, appeal. They assert, among other assignments, that the court erred in permitting a government witness to testify about events recalled only after hypnosis, and in permitting the medical expert who hypnotized the witness to testify in a manner prejudicial to the defendants.

The government witness, Hackney, was one of several inmates who had stabbed Lewis, a fellow prisoner, in the prison’s group activities center. After being granted immunity, Hackney began to recall the names of other prisoners he said were in on the…