United States v. Joseph Armand Oliver

STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.

The principal issue raised in this appeal requires a determination of the evidential admissibility of polygraph examination results under the particular circumstances of this case. Appellant Joseph Oliver was indicted on December 14, 1972, with transporting the prosecutrix from Missouri to Kansas against her will for the purpose of sexual gratification in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1201. In proceedings that foreshadow the current appeal, Oliver’s conviction for that charge was reversed on appeal and remanded for a new trial.1 Appellant’s second trial in the district…