Commonwealth v. Haefner

OPINION OF THE COURT

JONES, Chief Justice.

While on trial before a judge and jury for the crimes of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and corruption *394of minors, Richard Charles Haefner, appellant, testified that, during the ten hours of custody which preceded his preliminary arraignment, he was mistreated by the police who arrested and interrogated him. Roughly two hours of the interrogation consisted of the administration of a lie detector test to appellant. At the beginning of the trial, however, the trial judge ruled inadmissible, at sidebar, all polygraph evidence. See Commonwealth v.…