Have you ever heard someone tell a story of a past event many times and noticed that the story changed with each recounting?  Is the narrator of the story lying?  Is he/she altering the story to make it more appealing?  Or is he/she relying on a distant memory that's not so reliable?  Tough questions all but important ones given the stakes at today's Senate hearings on a Supreme Court justice. As a criminal defense attorney, I run into this issue of false memory all the time.  Juries in … [Read more...]