Legal Opinion
United States v. Miriam Henao Posado, Pablo Ramirez and Irma Clemencia Hurtado
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 20, 1995No. 94-20285PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:
This appeal concerns the admissibility of polygraph evidence in a pretrial hearing to suppress forty-four kilograms of cocaine recovered after an airport interdiction and search of the defendants’ luggage. The district court refused to consider polygraph evidence offered by the defendants to corroborate their version of events preceding the arrest. Our precedent, with few variations, has unequivocally held that polygraph evidence is inadmissible in a federal court for any purpose. See, Barrel of Fun, Inc. v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 739 F.2d 1028, 1031 (5th Cir.1984)…
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