GORDON KEENE VELLA. - On Point News

elevant scientific community. Even the qualifications set forth by Dr. Brown are called into
question by this recently discovered information. 1
To be sure, the Defendant’s motion is not directed to a challenge of the methodology (if
any) employed by Dr. Brown in his analysis and subsequent testimony at trial. Rather, this
motion is focused directly upon the misrepresentations of fact made by Dr. Brown in testimony
intended to support the admissibility of his opinions. See Daubert, 509 U.S. at 589-93 (holding
that the district court operates as a gate-keeper with regard to proffered scientific expert
testimony).
In support of his motion, Vella has offered the declarations of three experts 2 in the fields
of psychiatry and psychology, Dr. Harrison G. Pope, Jr., Dr. Richard J. McNally, and Dr. R.
Christopher Barden. (Ex. 1, Pope Decl.; Ex. 2, McNally Decl.; Ex. 3, Barden Decl.) Their
opinions are based upon their review of Dr. Brown’s trial testimony, (see Filings 361-362), and
report (admitted at trial as Trial Exhibit 7). (Ex. 4, Trial Exhibit 7) (“Report”).
These experts have presented their credentials and qualifications as part of their
declarations. (See Pope Decl. 2-4 & Exs. 1-1, 1-2; McNally Decl. 1 & Ex. 2-A; Barden
Decl. 1, 4-10 & Exs. 3-A, 3-B.) Briefly, Harrison Pope is a Professor of Psychiatry on the
faculty of Harvard Medical School and a practicing board-certified psychiatrist and Director of
Biological Psychiatry Laboratory at McLean Hospital (the largest of Harvard’s teaching
hospitals). He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers, more than 100 chapters and
1 This information was newly discovered during the process of preparing the Defendant’s appeal
to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
2 Vella also has become aware of grand jury testimony by Brown in another case that reportedly
contains misrepresentations regarding the same or similar issues as those raised here. Vella’s
counsel is taking immediate steps to obtain that testimony and may, if successful, seek leave to
supplement this evidentiary showing in the near future.
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