The Supremes
The 1966 case in which the USSC ruled that the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination extends to the police interrogation of a suspect.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
Transfer/waiver laws facilitate transfer of cases from juvenile court into this court.
What is criminal court?
This American financier, stock broker, and one-time Chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange was the mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, having embezzled an estimated $65 billion.
Who is Bernie Madoff?
This type of reliability refers to the degree to which two or more independent observers or judges agree on their assessments, ratings, or coding of the same phenomenon or person.
What is inter-rater reliability?
The city in which the Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology will take place in 2027.
What is Denver?
Daubert v. Merrell Dow (1993), General Electric v. Joiner (1997), and this third case from 1999 are sometimes referred to by commentators as the "Daubert Trilogy."
What is Kumho Tire v. Carmichael?
The 2010 case in which the USSC ruled that the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment precluded sentencing to life in prison without the possibility of parole youth who committed non-homicide offenses.
What is Graham v. Florida?
One of relatively few female serial killers to have been identified, this woman was convicted of 6 counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of 6 middle aged men that occurred along Central Florida highways over a 12 month period between 1989 and 1990.
Who is Aileen Wournos?
This term refers to a test's ability to correctly identify/detect those with the condition, trait or behavior of interest.
What is sensitivity or true positive rate?
Most certainly the screening tool designed to identify persons experiencing cognitive impairment that the current president describes himself as repeatedly "acing."
What is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)?
It was the 1979 case of Addington v. Texas in which the USSC ruled that this standard of proof was minimally required by the Constitution in civil commitment proceedings.
What is clear and convincing evidence?
The term used to describe the tendency of many youthful offenders to stop committing delinquent/criminal acts as they grow out of adolescence and young adulthood.
What is "desistence?"
The name on the airline ticket of the man who hijacked a 1971 flight out of Portland's airport, received a ransom demand of $200,000, and parachuted out of the plane, never to be found.
Who is DB Cooper?
This term refers to a test's ability to correctly identify those without the condition, trait, or behavior of interest.
What is specificity or true negative rate?
The name of London's Bethlem Royal Hospital, founded in 1403, eventually morphed into this name, which later came to be a word used in everyday language to describe a highly disordered or chaotic environment.
What is Bedlam?
The 1996 case in which the USSC recognized the existence of a psychotherapist-patient privilege via the Federal Rules of Evidence.
What is Jaffee v. Redmond?
This psychologist, a student of Robert Hare, is the lead author of the Psychopathy Checklist-Youth Version.
Who is Adelle Forth?
The apocryphal tale of the bank robber who, when asked by a reporter why he robbed banks, is said to have replied, "Because that's where the money is."
Who is Willie Sutton?
This statistical technique is used to identify underlying, unobservable "latent" variables (factors) that explain the correlations among a larger set of observed variables.
What is factor analysis?
The lawyer-psychologist author of the book Coping with Psychiatric and Psychological Testimony, which was first published in 1970 and written to facilitate attorneys' cross-examinations of forensic psychologists and forensic psychiatrists.
Who is Jay Ziskin?
The 2024 case in which the USSC unanimously ruled that the confrontation clause is violated when a testifying "substitute" expert summarizes an absent forensic analyst’s out-of-court statements to support his or her own expert opinion, assuming those statements are offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted.
What is Smith v. Arizona?
The 2012 case in which the USSC ruled that the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment precludes automatic/mandatory sentences of life in prison with youth who have convicted of homicide.
What is Miller v. Alabama?
The physician serial killer who used a boarding house he operated to lure his many victims during the course of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, whose life and crimes were chronicled in Erik Larson's award-winning book, "The Devil in the White City."
Who is H.H. Holmes?
This curve illustrates the diagnostic ability of a binary classification model by plotting the True Positive Rate against the False Positive Rate at various classification threshold settings or "cut scores."
What is a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve?
The satirical "Expert Wizard Amendment," was a bill introduced in the legislature of this state in 1995, directing that, when providing expert testimony, psychologists and psychiatrists were to dress as wizards, dressing in a cone-shaped hat, wearing a white beard, and holding a wand (the bill was not passed).
What is New Mexico?