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Documents Bank

Welcome to the Alternative Commitment and Registration Support Unit’s SDP Documents Bank.  The briefs, memoranda, pleadings, clinicians' reports, etc., below were forwarded by SDP panelists and others to us in the hope that they will be of assistance to defense counsel.  Their contributions are greatly appreciated. 

Copies of the following documents are available (by email request) to defense counsel ONLY.  When requesting copies, please identify yourself and your affiliation.  Please let us know of any documents you come across that would be helpful to others.  Thank you.


Motions
Memoranda
Miscellaneous
Clinicians' Transcripts
Qualified Examiner Reports

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

MOTIONS

Copies of the following motions are available (by email request) to defense counsel ONLY.  When requesting copies, please identify yourself and your affiliation.


ISSUE

ATTORNEY

Motion to Dismiss - Failure to Timely File [& Memo]

Bill Robinson

Motion to Dismiss - Defendant Civilly Committed under G.L. c. 123 [& Memo]

Mark Gillis

Motion for Directed Verdict  - Insufficiency of Evidence

Mike Farrington

Motion for Judgment of Dismissal - No Commonwealth expert [& Memo]

Mike Farrington

Motion to Exclude - Hearsay

David Hirsch

Motion to Exclude - Police Reports & info therein [& Memo]

Anna Lembo

Motion to Exclude - Phallometric result [& Memo]

Anna Lembo

Motion in Limine to Exclude - Risk Assessment Testimony (U.S. v. Haynes)

 

Motion to Exclude - Daubert Challenge re Risk Assessment 

David Hirsch

Motion for Interrogatories & Production of Records

John Swomley

Motion for Interrogatories & Depositions

Greg Bal

Motion for Speedy § 9 Hearing

David Hirsch


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 

MEMORANDA 

Copies of the following memoranda are available (by email request) to defense counsel ONLY.  When requesting copies, please identify yourself and your affiliation.


ISSUE

ATTORNEY

Support of Motion to Dismiss (Failure to Timely File)

Bill Robinson

Support of Motion for Judgment of Dismissal (No Commonwealth expert)

Mike Farrington

Support of Motion to Dismiss (Defendent Civilly Committed under G.L. c. 123)

Mark Gillis

Support of Motion to Exclude (Police Reports & info therein)

Anna Lembo

Support of Motion to Exclude (Phallometric results)

Anna Lembo

Support of Request for Daubert/Lanigan Hearing re Risk Assessment 

David Hirsch

Challenge to St. 2004, c. 66 (Additional "sex offenses" & "repeal" of McLeod)

David Hirsch

Admissibility of Reports under G.L. c. 123A, § 14(c) [Confrontation/Crawford]

David Hirsch

Admissibility of Reports under G.L. c. 123A, § 14(c) [Bradway]

David Hirsch

Imminent Danger of Re-offense

David Hirsch

SDP Commitment while Serving Sentence

David Hirsch

Failure to Conduct Timely PC Hearing

David Hirsch

Right to Interrogatories & Depositions

David Hirsch

Validity of Long-Term Risk Assessments

David Hirsch

Nexus between Risk and Abnormality/Disorder

David Hirsch

Support of Motion for Speedy Hearing - § 9

David Hirsch

Diagnosis of "paraphilia—N.O.S.—rape" not scientifically valid

David Hirsch

Antisocial Personality Disorder

David Hirsch

Criminal Responsibility & Serious Difficulty in Controlling Behavior

David Hirsch


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
QUALIFIED EXAMINER REPORTS 

Copies of the following reports are available (by email request) to defense counsel ONLY.  When requesting copies, please identify yourself and your affiliation.

We now have, in hard copy, reports drafted by the following Qualified Examiners:

  Leonard Bard, Ph.D.
  Eric Brown, Psy.D.
  Stephen DeLisi, Ph.D.
  Carol Feldman, Ph.D., J.D.
  Robert Joss, Ph.D.
  Frederick Kelso, Ph.D.
  Cornelius Kiley, Ph.D.
  Manju Vachher, Ph.D.
  Paul Zeizel, Psy.D.

QE Ira Silverman's methodology re risk assessment found not reliable; excluded. Commonwealth v. Rajani (9/18/03)

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

CLINICIANS' TRANSCRIPTS 

Copies of the following transcripts are available (by email request) to defense counsel ONLY.  When requesting copies, please identify yourself and your affiliation.


CLINICIAN

PROCEEDING

JURISDICTION

DATE

 

 

 

 

Howard Barbaree, Ph.D.

Trial

CA (Superior Court)

May 2004

 

Deposition

IA

May 2004

       




       

Terence Campbell, Ph.D.

Daubert/Frye Hearing

IA (District Court)

June 2000

       




 

 

 

 

Dennis Doren, Ph.D.

Deposition

TX (District Court)

March 2001

 

Trial

IA (District Court)

July 2001

 

Deposition

WA (Superior Court)

April 2002

 

Trial

FL (Circuit Court, 2nd District)

January 2003

 

Trial

CA (Superior Court)

May 2004

       




 

 

 

 

Douglas Epperson, Ph.D.

Deposition

TX (District Court)

March 2001

 

Daubert/Frye Hearing

IA (District Court)

June 2000

       




 

 

 

 

Karl Hanson, Ph.D.

Deposition

TX (District Court)

November 1999





 

 

 

 

Stephen Hart, Ph.D.

Daubert Hearing

TX (District Court)

March 2001

 

Deposition

FL (12th Circuit)

April 2001

       




 

 

 

 

Harry Hoberman, Ph.D.

Deposition

IA (District Court)

Sept. 2001

 

Trial

IA (District Court)

Nov. 2001

       




 

 

 

 

Debra Inman, Ph.D.

Trial

CA (Superior Court)

July 1999

       




 

 

 

 

Charles Jackson, Ph.D.

Deposition

CA (Superior Court)

July 2001

 

P.C. Hearing

CA (Superior Court)

March 2000

       




 

 

 

 

Douglas Korpi, Ph.D.

Trial

CA (Superior Court)

April 1999

       




 

 

 

 

Wesley Maram, Ph.D.

Deposition

CA (Superior Court)

July 2001

       




 

 

 

 

Lynn Maskel, M.D.

Deposition & Daubert Hearing

TX (District Court)

March 2001

 

Daubert/Frye Hearing

IA (District Court)

June 2000

 

Trial

IA (District Court)

July 2001

       




 

 

 

 

Craig Monroe, Ph.D.

Trial

IA (District Court)

July 2000

 

Deposition

IA (District Court)

January 2003

       




 

 

 

 

Randy Otto, Ph.D.

Daubert Hearing

TX (District Court)

March 2001

       




 

 

 

 

Robert Owen, Ph.D.

P.C. Hearing

CA (Superior Court)

March 2000

       




 

 

 

 

Gabrielle Paladino

P.C. Hearing

CA (Superior Court)

November 2001

       




 

 

 

 

Amy Phenix, Ph.D.

Deposition

TX (District Court)

March 2001