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NEWKIRK v. COM.

No. 95-SC-172-MR.

937 S.W.2d 690 (1996)

Wendell Eugene NEWKIRK, Jr., Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied February 27, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann T. Eblen, Louisville, for appellant.

A.B. Chandler, III, Attorney General, Michael L. Harned, Lana Grandon, Assistant Attorneys General, Criminal Appellate Division, Office of the Attorney General, Frankfort, for appellee.

Michael M. Losavio, Nancy Gall-Clayton, Louisville, for amicus curiae, National Association of Counsel for Children.

LAMBERT, Justice.

In an unbroken line of decisions rendered from time to time throughout the last decade, this Court has repeatedly expressed its distrust of expert testimony which purported to determine criminal conduct based on a perceived psychological syndrome.1 In general our reasons have been the lack of diagnostic reliability, the lack of general acceptance within the discipline from...

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