25-08-2012, 08:06 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Dawn Meredith Wrote:A couple of weeks ago there was a trial here in one of the courts where I practice where teens testified to being sexually abused by a Sunday School teacher. The attorney got the judge to pay an enormous amount of money for a FMS "expert" to testify on behalf of the defense.
The jurors convicted in short order and told the lawyers later that they were insulted by this man's testimony and that it actually hurt his defense.
Beyond junk science.
Dawn
Why was the Judge, ie the taxpayer, paying for this pseudo science?
Jan: In all alleged child rape cases it is considered malpractice not to have an expert examine the defendant for propensity to be a sex offender. I just got one approved last week. (Only got 1/5 of the money this guy got approved). In this case the attorney was hired by the defendant and the rationale was that he was out of money and therefore indigent and an expert had to be appointed. I have a trial on Tuesday with this judge so I plan to ask him what he thought of this fake. I have already given the DA's some infor on FMS.
Dawn