Morgan v. Commonwealth

SPAIN, Justice.

The appellant, Michael Mark Morgan, was tried and convicted in November, 1989, for the murder of his wife, Gretchen Ann Morgan, on April 4, 1989, and sentenced to thirty-eight years’ imprisonment. Upon appeal to this Court, the conviction and sentence were reversed on April 11,1991, because the jury was told by a police officer that there was a polygraph instrument in the room where the appellant was interrogated. Although there was no testimony that the appellant was administered a lie detector test, let alone any purported test results, the Majority of the Court found…