An attempt to help (by supplying new psychiatric testimony) might easily have failed: what one misses is any sign that it was ever contemplated.

Until today, the two sides had been negotiating over the issue of psychiatric testimony.

The dispute, and the exclusion of psychiatric testimony, could create appealable issues requiring years to resolve.

But defenders of the experts protest that there is a genuine body of research and expertise underlying most psychiatric testimony.

I thought the legislature eliminated psychiatric testimony in dim cap cases.

As you mentioned, the layman is suspicious of psychiatric testimony, so the burden of proof will be upon us.

The effect of this standard was to exclude psychiatric and psychological testimony almost entirely from the legal process.

Dr. Appelbaum said he was not sure that having psychiatric testimony would have helped matters much.

The limited question before the judge is whether to bar psychiatric testimony as the prosecutors want.