With the increased utilization of hypnosis in both medical and scientific communities, police investigators have sought to incorporate hypnosis as part of their arsenal in the investigative process.
In crimes where investigative leads have be exhausted, hypnosis is utilized to retrieve memories of potential witnesses and victims.Information retrieved through hypnosis and corroborated through further investigation can be used in the investigation and introduced in court proceedings in most states.
Experts in this field have proven both that it is possible to restore memory through hypnosis and that these recovered memories can be reliable. The goal in retrieving these memories is to retrieve them with out distortion and very strict procedural guidelines are imposed by the courts before evidence is allowed.