Chapa v. Chapa

This is a child custody case.

A psychiatrist, who had practiced his medical specialty for over four years, hospitalized the mother and conducted a sodium amytal interview with her. He testified as follows:

"Sodium amytal is a chemical substance, the vernacular of which some people call `truth serum,' and I'll put that in quotes. The purpose of using it is to induce a state of relaxation much like hypnosis, under which the subject, when questioned, is in effect, without the — what we call the preconscious censor — in other words, the inhibitions about things, such as telling the truth and…