Legal Opinion
United States v. Hall
District Court, C.D. Illinois
Decided August 13, 1997No. 94-20036PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
McDADE, District Judge.
Before the Court is the Government’s Motion to Preclude Dr. Ofshe’s Testimony at Trial [Doc. # 164]. Dr. Richard Ofshe is a social psychologist operating in the field of coercive police interrogation techniques and the phenomenon of false or coerced confessions. He is prepared to testify that experts in his field agree that false confessions exist, that individuals can be coerced into giving false confessions, and that there exist identifiable coercive police interrogation techniques which are likely to produce false confessions.
At Defendant’s first trial, the…
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