polygraph

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7536 Mark D. Sievers v. Florida Florida 2023-05-12 Denied IFP closing-argument due-process fair-trial jury-instruction plea-agreement polygraph prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Whether a state judge violates a defendant's due process right to a fair trial by giving an impromptu jury instruction regarding the credibility of th…
21-8224 Arthur L. Gurbey v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compelled-self-incrimination criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment minnesota-v-murphy polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a condition of supervised release impermissibly compels a defendant to answer any questions posed during any examination during the period of …
21-7942 P'erre Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a circuit split should be resolved regarding whether a condition of supervised release requiring submission to polygraph testing violates a De…
21-7927 Lamar Reese v. Richard Bowen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied IFP citizenship-misrepresentation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial plain-error polygraph polygraph-evidence Whether the failure to object to the admission of a polygraph examination that contained obvious errors deprived the defendant of a fair trial
21-6493 Jarrett Alvin Kinley v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-02 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony napue-v-illinois napue-violation polygraph polygraph-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court's holding conflict with Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959)
21-5153 Brian K. Rogers v. United States First Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fifth-amendment polygraph polygraph-examination self-incrimination sex-offender-treatment supervised-release Are admissions made during a polygraph examination required by sex offender treatment compelled for purposes of the Fifth Amendment when failing the e…
19-7904 Jason Bonds v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment minnesota-v-murphy polygraph Polygraph-Examination Right-to-Remain-Silent right-to-silence self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a condition of supervised release requiring a defendant to participate in sex offender treatment that may include polygraph examinations viola…
19-6166 Sean Lee Strandberg v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure defense-mechanism due-process evidence evidence-conflict judicial-proceedings polygraph polygraph-evidence presumed-land sixth-amendment sixth-circuit state-lien strickland-v-washington united-states-supreme-court washington-v-hovey Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision on the important matter of whether the prosecutor's use of polygraph evidence conflicts with or departs from acce…
18-8866 Winston Grey Brakeall v. Robert Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights parole parole-conditions polygraph polygraph-examination polygraph-examinations self-incrimination sex-offenders Whether compelled self-incrimination through the use of polygraph examinations as a requirement of parole violates parolees' Fifth and Fourteenth Amen…
18-751 Metropolitan Interpreters & Translators Inc. v. Francisco Bates, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied civil-rights due-process employee-polygraph-protection-act executive-branch-review executive-power federal-contractor federal-contractors judicial-review polygraph polygraph-examination security-clearance standing Whether the Employee Polygraph Protection Act supersedes the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual's authorization of federal agencies…
18-6594 Willie Safford, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-11-07 Denied IFP aggravated-battery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process perjury polygraph polygraph-test post-conviction-relief witness-testimony Whether the defendant should be allowed to return to the lower tribunal to challenge the testimony of Rodney Hartmyer, Jerry Gay, and Robert Schran