State v. Gregory

During the course of a hearing on the admissibility of child hearsay, prior to his trial for two counts of rape of his daughter K, Robert G. Gregory sought to admit the results of a polygraph and other tests that tended to exonerate him.

In seeking admission of the results his counsel all but conceded they were inadmissible at trial on the issue of guilt or innocence. The trial court refused to consider the test results in the course of the decision to admit the daughter’s hearsay statements to others, finding them irrelevant on the issue of reliability of the statements. Defense counsel did…