Legal Opinion
State v. Sharpe
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided January 4, 2019No. 7326 S-16191/S-16193/S-16214/S-16449PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STOWERS, Chief Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
In each of the three underlying criminal cases in this consolidated appeal, the defendant sought to introduce expert testimony by a polygraph examiner that the defendant was truthful when he made exculpatory statements relating to the charges against him during a polygraph examination conducted using the "comparison question technique" (CQT). In two of the cases, the superior courts found that testimony based on a CQT polygraph examination satisfied the requirements for scientific evidence under Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 1 and State v.…
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- Richard S. RASKIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the WYATT COMPANY, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1997
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