Expert Testimony: Interviewing and Interrogation

Evidence in your case was obtained though intensive interviewing or interrogation.

Lyn Haber, Ph.D. provides expert testimony on the factors that show whether testimony given in interviews or interrogations is likely to be accurate.

If the witness is a child, if the report is given freely, to a trusted adult, in a safe setting, of a familiar and non-threatening event, soon after the event occurred, accompanied by suitable gestures and body language, it is likely to be accurate.

If the child changes his/her testimony over the course of repeated questioning, Dr. Haber can document those changes and evaluate the factors that make a particular response more likely to be accurate.

If the witness is an adult, the conflicting versions in repeated reports or testimony can be evaluated for the factors that make a particular version most likely to be accurate. Linguistic factors, such as "I hit him" versus "I must have hit him" are included (the former is more likely to be accurate, "must have" is reconstruction, not a memory).