UNITED STATES v. HEARST

Cr. No. 74-364-OJC.

412 F.Supp. 893 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Patricia Campbell HEARST, Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

March 22, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Browning, Jr., U. S. Atty., F. Steele Langford, David P. Bancroft, Edward P. Davis, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., San Francisco, Cal., for the United States.

F. Lee Bailey, J. Albert Johnson, Boston, Mass., Thomas J. May, Brookline, Mass., for the defense.


ON MOTION TO ADMIT MEMORANDUM RE INADMISSIBILITY OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC TESTIMONY

OLIVER J. CARTER, Chief Judge.

Counsel for the defense urged this Court on at least three occasions to admit the testimony of Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer in the field of psycholinguistics. As reflected in the offer of proof, Dr. Singer, if called as an expert witness, would have testified that her expertise in this area enables her to conclude from a stylistic comparison of known...

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