Robert J. Brown v. John F. Darcy, A/K/A Jack Darcy, an Individual Ducommun, Inc., a Corporation

CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:

Polygraph evidence has been disfavored in the federal courts since the decision of the District of Columbia Circuit in Frye v. United States, 293 Fed. 1013 (D.C. Cir.1923).1 Despite advances in polygraphy since the Frye decision, there are still significant questions regarding the reliability of polygraph examinations. Polygraph evidence also presents problems for our adversarial system because it has an overwhelmingly prejudicial effect when it is inaccurate, interferes with the jury’s authority to determine credibility, and imposes a burden on district…