Experience

• 17 years trial consulting experience.  Performed 20 COV surveys and pretrial publicity content analyses. Experience in mock trials, jury selection/voir dire, Colorado Method of juror life qualification.
  
• Critiqued change of venue surveys performed by other trial consulting companies, testified in court about errors in their question construction, the statistical analyses they used, and their interpretations of results.
• Scholarly research on legal psychology issues. For example, on “prehabilitation” (a term coined in Hamilton’s research lab), which refers to judges’ and attorneys’ attempts to rehabilitate before asking prospective jurors about their biases, thereby exerting pressure on them to hide any biases from the court.
  Examples:
  “We’re here to see whether you are able to set aside pretrial publicity.” “Do you think you are capable of being impartial and fair?”
  “Remember, it is your duty to presume innocence. Do you think you can do that?”
• Taught CLE courses concerning voir dire and change of venue.
• Psychology professor since 1985. Courses:  Law and Human Behavior, Statistics, Social Psychology, Experimental Methods, Applied Psychology, Introduction to Psychology, Psychology of Women, Advanced Research.
• Member: American Society of Trial Consultants, former Director of Research, currently on the Peremptory Challenges Task Force.

Kate Zephyrhawke

UC Berkeley BA English Literature
University of South Florida MA Rhetoric and Composition
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology MA Psychology
San Jose State University (ABT) MA Mass Communications