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- Title: Joseph Contreras and Ricky Glen Grumbles
- Author : Supreme Court of Alaska
- Release Date : January 18, 1986
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 81 KB
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RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice. MATTHEWS, Justice, Concurring. BURKE, Justice, Dissenting. When a witness is hypnotized by the police in an effort to identify a suspect, is the witness' subsequent testimony at trial, as to facts and recollections adduced during hypnosis, admissible evidence? The court of appeals held that hypnosis did not render a witness incompetent to testify as to matters adduced during hypnosis, and that hypnotically generated statements or recollections could be admissible in evidence. State v. Contreras, 674 P.2d 792 (Alaska App. 1983). The issue is now before us on petition for hearing, filed pursuant to Alaska R. App. P. 302(a). We reverse 1 and adopt a rule that permits a witness who has been previously hypnotized to testify only to facts which he related prior to hypnosis.