Court Opinion

ID: 9845556
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:24:09.353248+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:16:13.735941
License: Public Domain

GORDON, Vice Chief Justice
(dissent-
ing):
Adhering to the position I espoused in the original opinion in this matter, Lemieux v. Superior Court, 131 Ariz. 214, 644 P.2d 1300 (1982), I dissent. I disagree with the majority’s opinion for the reasons I enumerated in State ex rel. Collins v. Superior Court, 131 Ariz. 180, 644 P.2d 1266 (concurring and dissenting opinion on rehearing, filed May 4, 1982). Excluding my apprehension for a violation of the defendant’s right to effective cross-examination, the concerns expressed in that dissent are also present in civil cases where testimony of a previously hypnotized person is introduced at trial. I, of course, concur in the prospective application of the rule the Court develops as this was my position in the original opinion.