In Barefoot v. Estelle, the American Psychiatric Association filed an amicus curiae regarding the validity and reliability of predictions of future dangerousness, stating an accuracy rate of about ______.

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In Barefoot v. Estelle, the American Psychiatric Association filed an amicus curiae brief stating that the accuracy rate of psychiatric predictions of future dangerousness was only about 30%. This was part of their argument on the limitations and unreliability of such predictions in the context of death penalty sentencing.

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