DOJ-OGR-00007496.pdf

--- Page 1 --- **Document Header** * Case Number: 1:20-cr-00330-PAE * Document Number: 499-1 * Filed Date: 11/23/21 * Page Number: 3 of 375 **Page Content** * **Case Information** + Case Number: 1:20-cr-00330-PAE + Document Number: 499-1 + Filed Date: 11/23/21 + Page Number: 3 of 375 * **Case Title**: Comey, Moe, Pomerantz and Rohrbach * **Date**: November 1, 2021 * **Page Number**: Page 2 * **Text**: [described with confidence, detail, and emotion, just like true memories. This can occur when people come to believe in these experiences and are not deliberately lying. Dr. Loftus would identify some of the suggestive activities that occurred in the current case.] **Section Break** * **Section Title**: Suggestive activities can explain how it is that a person might go from having no memory of sexual abuse, and even denying sexual abuse, to later having "memories" for numerous abusive acts, if the memories are false. She will explain the mechanism by which false and/or distorted memories can be created as a result of post-event information and occurrences, suggestion, influence or the like. She will also testify about the characteristics of false and/or distorted memories. In particular "memories" can be described with confidence, detail and emotion, even when they are false. She will point out some of the suggestive activities that occurred in this case. She will explain how media coverage and other publications (including but not limited to newspaper and magazine articles, news reports, television shows, documentaries, books, podcasts, websites, etc.) and discussions/ conversations with others, can be sources of suggestion. She will explain how, in a case like this one, suggestion can lead individuals to the construction of distorted memories. **Section Break** * **Section Title**: B. Park Dietz, M.D., M.P.H., PH.D. * **Text**: Dr. Park Dietz is a psychiatrist specializing in forensic psychiatry with over 40 years of experience. He has been previously qualified as an expert in psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. **Section Break** * **Section Title**: Dr. Dietz received a bachelor's degree in psychology and biology from the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences (1970), an M.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1975), a Master's degree in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (1975), and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Johns Hopkins University (1984). He completed psychiatric residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (1975-77) and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (1977-78), where he was Chief Fellow in Forensic Psychiatry. He has been board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology since 1979. **Section Break** * **Section Title**: He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine. From 1986 to 1989, he was a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and a Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. From 1982 to 1986, he was an Associate Professor of Law and of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Virginia Schools of Law and Medicine. From 1978 to 1982, he was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In those positions he taught and lectured on forensic psychiatry for diverse audiences, including law students, practicing attorneys, law enforcement officers, psychiatry residents, forensic psychiatry fellows, and practicing forensic psychiatrists and psychologists. **Section Break** * **Section Title**: He is a Past President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He has served on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, the Journal of Forensic Sciences, Behavioral Sciences and the Law, the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, and other **Footer** * **Text**: DOJ-OGR-00007496