less weight to her hypnotic testimony. However, this was a landmark case for forensic hypnosis and the possibility that forensic hypnosis could be admitted as evidence in future cases led to a great expansion of the public's interest in forensic hypnosis and the method's use, especially in pre-trial work. An example of the method's expanding use is shown in the founding of hypnosis training institutes such as Martin Reiser's Law Enforcement Hypnosis Institution in Los Angeles which trained thousands of police in the 1970s. With the expanded use of forensic hypnosis came claims about the technique's truth-telling capabilities, particularly in popular scientific journals which influenced how the public viewed its dependability. As a movement developed around support for forensic hypnosis, academic psychologists who were skeptical about the legitimacy of hypnosis's use in court increasingly challenged the admissibility of hypnotic testimonies. Academic psychologist's interest in challenging some of the popular beliefs surrounding hypnosis and memory led to a general increase in psychological experimentation and new procedures for analysis of these experiments. Psychologists studied how hypnosis makes people more susceptible to suggestion to determine if this suggestibility created a risk for the practitioner to influence what they are, perhaps unintentionally, looking for in the subject. Among the psychologists looking to challenge forensic hypnosis's use in the late 1970s was Martin Theodore Orne. Orne concluded in 1979 that while memory could be improved through hypnosis, using the tool also risked the hypnotist introducing outside information and distorting the memory. While popular culture and scientific journals began to hail forensic hypnosis as a method for recovering faultless memories which were stored inside of our minds, psychologists developed counterclaims and a different perspective on how memory and the mind worked under hypnosis. Forensic Hypnosis faced a series of serious legal challenges in the 1980s with People v. Shirley (1982) standing out as a case which directly attacked the method's reliability. People v. Shirley was a California rape case where the supposed victim Catherine Crump went to the police while intoxicated and vaguely reported a rape. Mr. Farnell, a hypnotist without a formal psychology background, assisted her in retrieving a detailed story from her memory in which she woke in her apartment to find the defendant yielding a large knife and forcing her to have sex with him. However, there were multiple inconsistencies in the story she produced through hypnosis and what she had previously reported