The Supremes
The 1966 case in which the USSC ruled that the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination applies to the police interrogations of a detained suspect.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
Juvenile 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 longest-running and most successful 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 rater 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 future release youth who committed non-homicide offenses.
What is Graham v. Florida?
This female serial killer, who was portrayed by Charlize Theron in the 2003 movie, Monster, was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of six men that took place 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?
Most certainly the screening tool designed to identify persons exhibiting mild cognitive impairment that the sitting President of the United States has repeatedly described himself as "acing."
What is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)?
It was the 1979 case of Addington v. Texas in which the USSC ruled that this intermediate standard of proof was minimally required by the Constitution in civil commitment proceedings.
What is clear and convincing evidence?
This term is used to describe the tendency of many youthful offenders to stop committing delinquent/criminal acts as they age out of adolescence and young adulthood.
What is "desistence/desisters"?
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 then parachuted out of the plane, never to be found.
Who is DB Cooper?
This statistical technique is used to identify underlying, unobservable "latent" variables that explain the correlations among a larger set of observed variables.
What is factor analysis?
The only professional organization that has developed practice guidelines for how to go about conducting both competence to stand trial and sanity examinations.
What is the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL)?
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 and faculty member at the University of Alabama authored the Risk-Sophistication-Treatment Inventory (RST-I), an assessment tool that is sometimes used by psychologists examining juveniles in transfer/waiver cases.
Who is Dr. Randy Salekin?
Perhaps an apocryphal tale, this well-known bank robber, 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 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 an ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curve?
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 Dr. 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 therein.
What is Smith v. Arizona?
Predating Roper v. Simmons by only 16 years, it was this 1989, 5-4 decision in which the USSC ruled that the Constitution did not prohibit execution of persons who were 16- and 17- at the time they committed murder.
What is Stanford v. Kentucky?
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?
In Jordan v. City of New London (2000) Robert Jordan unsuccessfully sued a Connecticut police department after his effort to be hired as an officer cadet/trainee was denied on the grounds that he scored too high on this test of cognitive functioning, earning an IQ estimated score of 125.
What is the Wonderlic?
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, wearing a cone-shaped hat and white beard, and holding a wand (the bill was not passed, in case you are wondering).
What is New Mexico?