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Continued from page 1Agaps in memory can be filled with improper data based on suggestions from police, family or medical personnel who might have questioned the victim immediately afterward.“The mind does not like for things not to make sense, so it will try and fill in the gaps,” he said.Victims can come to believe those suggestions to be facts, Coons said.He said the best way to derive what a person can recall from an incident is to “allow a person to tell you.”Coons said leading questions that include phrases like, “And then what happened?” can make a victim feel he or she must have an answer.In cross examination, Shook asked if a victim of a traumaticincident might become turn to malingering — the claim that one suffers from a condition he or she doesn’t actually have — as a defense mechanism.Coons responded, “If a person would have an advantage by lying about a problem — money, a crime — you always want to be careful that’s (malingering) not going on.”
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Kerrville Daily Times
Kerrville, Texas, US
Fri, Jan 31, 1997
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