Com. v. AR’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[T]he results obtained from the administration of a therapeutic polygraph examination in a sexual offenders’ treatment program are admissible at a probation revocation hearing as evidence to support the underlying violation, ie., a sexual offender’s lack of amenability to treatment, so long as [1) ] the results of that examination are not the sole basis for the revocation petition; [2) ] they do not reveal uncharged criminal conduct on the part of the defendant; and [3) ] they are not used for purposes of the investigation of criminal conduct.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. A.R.