polygraph-evidence
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5278 | Reynaldo Alberto Peña v. Texas | Texas | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment polygraph-evidence sixth-amendment | Whether admission of inculpatory statements from a polygraph examination without context violates a defendant's constitutional rights to a fair trial |
| 24-6379 | Lamar Reese v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-review due-process evidence-admissibility polygraph-evidence scientific-evidence | Whether the polygraph examination is admissible under Daubert and the Federal Rules of Evidence |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| 19-5122 | David Alan Westerfield v. California | California | 2019-07-09 | Denied | IFP | capital-trial de-novo-review due-process due-process-review fourth-amendment independent-review jury-sequestration polygraph-evidence pretrial-publicity probable-cause sheppard-v-maxwell standard-of-review | Does the mandate announced in Sheppard v. Maxwell apply to the appellate assessment of the trial court's rejection of jury sequestration? |