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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 12 > Experts hired to shed light can leave U.S. courts in the dark

Experts hired to shed light can leave U.S. courts in the dark

By Adam Liptak / The Bulletin
August 12, 2008

Judge Denver Dillard was trying to decide whether a slow-witted Iowa man accused of acting as a drug mule was competent to stand trial. But the conclusions of the two psychologists who gave expert testimony in the case, Dillard said, were “polar opposites.”

One expert, who....

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