Commonwealth v. Kater

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• finding that questionable reliability of hypnotically refreshed memory suggests “it is simply not worth miring the judicial process in individual determinations”
• finding that questionable reliability of hypnotically refreshed memory suggests \it is simply not worth miring the judicial process in individual determinations\
• improper for prosecutor to imply that the reason defendant did not wear short-sleeved shirts during the trial was to conceal his hairy arms
• “Memory is said not to be like a videotape, which accurately records every perception and needs merely to be played back”
• permissible to comment on defendant's changed hairstyle between crime and trial, but improper for prosecutor to imply defendant did not wear short-sleeved shirts during trial to try to conceal his hairy arms where witness testified that suspect had hairy arms
• testimony as to prehypnotic memory admissible under certain guidelines

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