Justice Hassell:
I simply place no credence whatsoever in Dr. Samenow's opinion…
I would hold that Dr. Samenow's opinion is incredulous as a matter of law...
I am perplexed that Dr. Samenow, who did not administer a complete IQ test to the defendant and admittedly asked the defendant questions based upon outdated tests...
Dr. Samenow admitted that some of the questions he administered to the defendant were based upon a test developed in 1939!
Dr. Samenow used this obsolete test even though he acknowledged that the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, Ethical Standards 2.07 (1992) of the American Psychological Association, prohibits the use of obsolete tests and outdated test results.
Dr. Samenow, however, could not validly pine about the defendant's adaptive behavior because he had not interviewed anyone who had observed the defendant prior to his incarceration!
Dr. Samenow's methodology is flawed because when he improperly administered portions of certain tests, he failed to comply with the relevant instructions for those tests.
I place no credence in Dr. Samenow's opinion…
Suprem Court Justice Koontz:
I agree with the view expressed in detail in Justice Hassell’s dissent in this case.
Read the dissent starting on page 24 of the opinion.
http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opnscvwp/1000395.pdf
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Dr. Samenow is corrupt. He did the wrong evaluation in my case and the Judge Just turned a blind eye.
Dr.Samenow was ordered to conduct a psychological evaluation in a 'high conflict' divorce with a mother who had a traumatic brain injury and a murderer for a father and Dr. Samenow chose to do a 'Custody Evaluation' that took the focus off the emotional dysfunction of psychopathy and onto the size of the pool in the backyard.
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