Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services v. Scruggs

POLLITT, Judge.

This case confronts us with the question of whether the long-standing prohibition of polygraph evidence in Maryland judicial proceedings also applies under the “relaxed” evidentiary standards of administrative proceedings. While the parameters of the rule are well-settled within our trial courts, we have been referred to no Maryland appellate decision squarely addressing the issue in the context of administrative proceedings. After an extensive review revealing grave doubts in the efficacy of' the instrument which are still held in both the judicial and scientific communities,…