Could somebody please explain to me why the prosecutor even wanted to do the hypnosis procedure? His job is to prove that Hoover kidnapped Ivy. How could the hypnosis procedure have helped his case?
sharePerhaps, in the hopes of disproving the idea of reincarnation through regression. Your point is well taken though.
shareNotice how they took such great pains NOT to explain why he wanted the procedure or what it even was until it was happening.
shareThe defence case is predicated on the notion that Hoover has a parental right to remove Ivy because her soul is in fact that of Audrey Rose. If the prosecution's regression procedure can disprove any vestige of, as it were, spiritual memory of Audrey Rose, that parental right will be negated.
Both Ivy's father and the prosecutor have no belief whatsoever in the concept or reincarnation, and therefore assume that the regression will secure their case.
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"Duck, I says..."
Don't remember exactly how it happens in the film, but in the book, Bill Templeton urges Prosecutor Scott Velie to move for procedure to the court.
The defense actually objected (Hovver feared what could end up happening), but Judge Langley reasoned (after letting the defense practically run the trial) that the defense had been given a ton of room to present its case, so the prosecution would thus be afforded the same amount of leeway.