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U.S. v. Hamilton, No. Crim. No. 05-876 (JLL) (D.N.J.) (579 F.Supp.2d 637) (September 28, 2008) (Judge Jose L. Linares)

Loaded on Feb. 1, 2009 published in Punch and Jurists February 23, 2009
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Consciousness of Innocence.

Historically, polygraph evidence has been viewed with great disfavor by the Federal courts. Not only are the results of polygraph exams generally inadmissible, there is not even any consensus that polygraph evidence is scientifically reliable. (See, U.S. v. Scheffer, 523 U.S. 303, 309 (1998)). Thus, while polygraphs may have an ...

 

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