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Slate's Jurisprudence: Repressed Memories and the Courts

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By Dahlia Lithwick

Published February 8, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

The recovered memory of one victim was the main evidence used to convict defrocked Boston priest Paul Shanley. Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick joins NPR's Madeleine Brand to discuss the use of this form of evidence.

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