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Adjunct Professor Dr. Tracy Gunter Quoted on Role of Memory in Legal Proceedings
02/08/2016
In his February 5, 2016 article “Raise your right hand and repeat after me,” John Russell writes about his experience in a recent jury trial and the weight that may be given to eye-witness testimony during legal proceedings.
He consulted Dr. Tracy Gunter, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine. She is also an adjunct professor at IU McKinney School of Law where she teaches “Neuroscience and the Law.”
She commented on the often incomplete or unreliable nature of human memories, but also noted “Eyewitness testimony has been a major pillar of the criminal justice system for as long as we’ve had a criminal justice system.”
An expert in Forensic Psychiatry, Dr. Gunter a frequent national and international speaker in mental health and law. Her interest in problem solving courts resulted in interdisciplinary collaborations with professors of social work, criminal justice, and law working on a grant examining mental health courts in Missouri. As a clinician, Dr. Gunter has been named in “Best Doctors in America” for several years. She has consulted on over 1500 cases in criminal and civil litigation, including probate and employment matters.
