the Frye Standard. An example of this stance can be seen in State v. Pusch (1951). August Pusch was accused of poisoning his wife and charged with first-degree murder. A doctor trained in hypnosis who claimed that he could tell when one of his patients was lying, hypnotized Pusch. The recordings and doctor's testimony were both deemed inadmissible under the Frye Standard. The court compared forensic hypnosis to the polygraph test stating that they could both be used in criminal investigation but were not admissible in court. An additional issue with the admission of forensic hypnosis is that when admitted it would have the status of a witness testimony which the jury would be asked to evaluate. This poses a risk since practitioners and lay supporters of forensic hypnosis claim forensic testimonies to be the unmediated record of events making it difficult for juries to properly evaluate testimonies and leading judges to declare forensic hypnosis inadmissible. This highlights another similarity of forensic hypnosis to the polygraph test as it is difficult for the jury to evaluate the truth value of such evidence. William J. Brian, a psychiatrist who used hypnosis in WW II and an early supporter of forensic hypnosis, offered to evaluate the state of mind of Henry Adolf Busch, an accused serial killer in 1957. Bryan portrayed hypnosis and memory like a recording device in an analogous way to the popular novel The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon and claimed that through using hypnosis he discovered that Busch had not been mentally in control of his actions. The jury was not convinced by his argument, but Bryan's push for the use of forensic hypnosis and appeal to popular culture brought forensic hypnosis one step closer to admissibility. Admissibility and challenges The general rule of inadmissibility which courts followed came to an end with State v. Harding (1968). In this case, Mildred Coley, who was raped and left wounded on the side of a road could not recall the events of the attack, but she was able to rehearse a detailed account of the events and identify her witness after a psychiatrist put her into a state of hypnosis. Declaring that forensic hypnosis satisfied the Frye Standard by gaining acceptance in the appropriate psychological fields and practices, the court called Coley as a witness to repeat what hypnosis allowed her to recall under the condition that the jurors give