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United States v. Hart

District Court, E.D. New York

Decided November 19, 1971No. 70-CR-107PublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JUDD, District Judge.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

Defendants’ motion for the admission of the results of polygraph tests and for an evidentiary hearing raises a question which apparently has never been squarely presented before. The case involves a Brady-type issue and not a pure question of the reliability of polygraph tests.

On the trial of two former federal narcotic agents for conspiracy to solicit a bribe (and kindred counts), the principal government witness, a narcotics dealer, blurted out during cross-examination that he had taken a lie detector test. When it developed that the tests, requested…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. Napue v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
  3. Mooney v. HolohanSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
  4. William B. Barbee v. Warden, Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1964
  5. United States v. James Vincent KeoghCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1968

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3Cited by31 opinions

  1. People v. PriceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1991
  2. State v. YoungWashington Supreme Court · 1978
  3. United States v. Alexander Bortnovsky, A/K/A "Sasha," and Leonid BrazCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1989
  4. State v. EngelhardtSupreme Court of Kansas · 2005
  5. State v. WooWashington Supreme Court · 1974

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