190 W. Va. 583 - State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
June 2010
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 157 W. Va. 640 - State v. Thomas · 158 W. Va. 905 - State v. Starr · 162 W. Va. 467 - State v. Vance · 162 W. Va. 602 - State v. Frazier · 180 W. Va. 342 - State v. England
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he lower court erred by failing to give the desired instruction regarding the inadmissibility of polygraph test results, so that the jury was not left to speculate on the results and why they were not placed in evidence. We also hold that although no objection was made to the introduction of evidence regarding the actual results- of the polygraph, introduction of such evidence is plain error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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