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...]
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