14 Or. App. 408 - State v. Taggart’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “" ‘The authorities agree that the subject pours out both fact and fancy. Dr. Lorenz observes: "Much care must be exercised by the experimenter to evaluate the results. He must discriminate, if possible, what is the product of fantasy and what of fact.” " ‘Although some persons retain their characteristic defenses even under influence of the drug, the degree and effect of suggestibility are greatly heightened. “ 'In psychotherapy, the physician’s skill depends on his obtaining recitals of internal, external, and mixed events, and on his ability to suggest developments and reconciliations. In law, we reject for untrustworthiness a method of interrogation which mingles external events with imaginary occurrences and shapes the answers of the subject to the suggestions of the examiner. Thus, however striking their medical uses, the drugs are not "truth serums”; they dissolve inhibitions and tend to stimulate unrepressed expressions of external fact, of fancy, and of suggestion.’ Despres, Legal Aspects of Drug-Induced Statements, 14 U.Chi.L.Rev. 600, 605 (1946-47).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 174 W. Va. 801 - State v. Howerton