Legal Opinion
United States v. Scheffer
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 31, 1998No. 96-1133PublishedCited by 1,353 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Thomas
This case presents the question whether Military Rule of Evidence 707, which makes polygraph evidence inadmissible in court-martial proceedings, unconstitutionally abridges the right of accused members of the military to present a defense. We hold that it does not.
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In March 1992, respondent Edward Scheffer, an airman stationed at March Air Force Base in California, volunteered to work as an informant on drug investigations for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI). His OSI supervisors advised him that, from time to time during the course of his undercover work, they would ask…
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