41 Va. App. 191 - White v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Robinson v. Commonwealth · Odum v. Commonwealth · Barber v. Commonwealth · Lee v. Commonwealth · Skinner v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“long line of cases, spanning almost thirty years, [in which this Court has] made clear that polygraph examinations are so thoroughly unreliable as to be of no proper evidentiary use whether they favor the accused, implicate the accused, or are agreed to by both parties. The point of these cases is that the lie-detector or polygraph has an aura of authority while being wholly unreliable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Com.“`polygraph examinations are so thoroughly unreliable as to be of no proper evidentiary use. . . . The point of these cases is that the lie-detector or polygraph has an aura of authority while being wholly unreliable.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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