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| Bogus forensic expert convicted | |
| 2007-02-21 | |
| I think I saw that in "Law and Order". A man who worked fraudulently as a forensic psychologist for almost 30 years has been convicted of deception. Gene Morrison, 48, left school with no qualifications but gave evidence as an "expert" in hundreds of court cases, many of which must now be re-assessed. He was convicted at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court of 20 charges of deception. Morrison, of Hyde, who was described as a charlatan, had denied conning judges, solicitors and police over decades.
Morrison's firm, Criminal and Forensic Investigations Bureau (CFIB), was hired by legal firms, insurance companies and private businesses to give evidence in court. He also gave evidence from the witness box and wrote reports, many of which he had copied from the internet. About 700 cases in which he gave evidence are now being re-assessed to look for possible miscarriages of justice. Morrison was found guilty of 18 offences including obtaining a money transfer by deception, obtaining property by deception, perverting the course of justice and perjury. He admitted a further two charges. The guilty verdicts followed two days of deliberation by the jury. He was cleared of one count of obtaining a money transfer by deception after the four-week trial. The jury is continuing to deliberate on a single count of intending to pervert the course of justice and another of attempting to obtain property by deception. Judge Jeffrey Lewis remanded Morrison in custody while the jury continued deliberating on the outstanding counts. | |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #3 Don't the Brit courts certify experts before admitting them into that status? We do - been there, done that. |
| Posted by: Angert Phavish1813 2007-02-21 18:55 |
| #2 " In the New Mexico Legislature's 1995 session, Sen. Duncan Scott, a Republican from Albuquerque, proposed an amendment to a psychologist regulatory bill offered by another senator. The Scott amendment would have dramatically changed the face of New Mexico's legal system: The amendment said: "`When a psychologist or psychiatrist testifies during a defendant's competentcy hearing, the psychologist or psychiatrist shall wear a cone-shaped hat that is not less than two feet tall. The surface of the hat shall be imprinted with stars and lightning bolts. "Additionally, a psychologist or psychiatrist shall be required to don a white beard that is not less than 18 inches in length, and shall punctuate crucial elements of his testimony by stabbing the air with a wand. Whenever a psychologist or psychiatrist provides expert testimony regarding a defendant's competentcy, the baliff shall contemporaneously dim the courtroom lights and administer two strikes to a Chinese gong." The bill, with the wizard amendment, passed the Senate by voice vote and cleared the House 46-14. Unfortunately, Gov. Gary Johnson vetoed the legislation. " http://home.tiac.net/~cri/2000/newmexico.html |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-02-21 17:47 |
| #1 It says a lot about "forensic psychology" that someone can BS judges about it for 30 years. Perhaps there is no real difference between the BS that qualified folk spew out and Mr Morrison's version? |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-02-21 15:40 |