Weinstein's defense to call psychology professor as expert on memory in NY trial

Jurors in Harvey Weinstein's New York rape trial are expected to hear testi...

NEW YORK - Jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape trial are expected to hear testimony about the nature of memory on Friday from a psychology professor, one of the witnesses whom lawyers for the former Hollywood mogul are calling as experts.

Loftus co-wrote a 2015 paper in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology titled “Remembering Disputed Sexual Encounters: A New Frontier for Witness Memory Research,” in which the authors concluded that accusations of sexual assault often involve “honest disagreement in interpretation of consent between the parties” and that an “accuser may well falsely remember that she overtly said or did things that she only thought about.

The former producer, known for films including “The English Patient” and “Shakespeare in Love,” has denied any non-consensual sex.

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