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Shootings. >> yes. >> by nature of you being a cop. >> yes. just retired a couple years ago. >> okay. realizing that, using the complete broad base of your experience, including law enforcement shootings and nonlaw enforcement shootings, what are the concerns that exist with interviewing a person who's been involved in the event of a shooting? >> memory issues. generally speaking, the primary concern is people when they're involved in a high stress event can have what we call critical stress amnesia or have memory -- temporary memory holes, i call them, that sometimes it takes up to 72 hours b...

They saw it or maybe a portion of it but their perceptual distortion, that's a human response for anything. when you talk about a dynamic, high stress event, people will experience memory issues. that's what a lot of people call them. it's the way they perceived it. sometimes it's that stress event repeats for them and they're trying to make the best sense of it the best that they can. >> so we will then talk to you about the other information and how you sort of filtered into the event that was a particular focus of yours and that is the altercation itself. if you would continue through that ...

Session because the jury will be left with two competing pieces of wisdom from two thought to be smart people with degrees. >> yeah, you got it. when you talk about the prosecution's experts, my guess is that they want to call somebody who will try to knock done that ptsd diagnosis that samuels is talking about, maybe somebody to talk about how she didn't suffer from abuse. and also address the memory issues. because basically jodi's story is that she didn't remember so much of what happened. and the doctor on the stand right now is talking about how that is part of what he diagnosed and part ...

>> um, well, i mean, again, i think i have a really excellent memory. just the issue -- >> objection -- >> answer the question as stated. >> it's hard because i don't think i have memory issues. >> all right, then that's your answer. >> nancy, what do you make of that? she says she has no memory of stabbing this man. >> anderson, her defense is she dropped a digital camera while taking sexy photos of him in the shower. he became enraged and he took off running on her heels. she went into his closet, reached back and found a 25 caliber weapon that nobody else knew about. he says also that he ha...

>> you're right, anderson -- >> let me just play two of those questions regarding her memory and get your reaction. >> how is it possible you remember such details from those days if you had a foggy memory? >> the fog or the confusion only begins when he starts screaming or if there's a fear that maybe there's going to be tension or some kind of escalation of anger or violence. and then certain incidents such as the physical pain is crystallized in my mind. so that sticks. >> is there anyone else who knows about your memory issues? >> um, well, i mean, again, i think i have a really excellent ...