I. INTRODUCTION Hypnosis has been ...

I. INTRODUCTION

Hypnosis has been used for through the whole extent of one hundred fifty years to enhance the memories of witnesses to legally relevant situations similar as crimes and events leading to injury or attribute damage. (1) At its best, hypnosis leads to credible and independently verifiable testimony. For example, in Beck v Norris, sum of two units days after giving extensive descriptions of the perpetrator of a robbery, five witnesses underwent hypnosis to elicit additional details concerning the crime. (2) As a eventuate the defendant was identified by the agency of a new composite sketch. (3) A witness to the crime who had been neither hypnotized nor involved