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Miss. Code Ann. § 99-1-27

Victim of sex offenses not required to submit to truth telling devices as condition for proceeding with investigation of offense

Laws, 2008, ch. 391, § 4, eff from and after July 1, 2008.

(1) No law enforcement officer, prosecutor or other government official shall ask or require an adult, youth or child victim of a sex offense to submit to a polygraph examination or other truth telling device as a condition for proceeding with the investigation of the offense.

(2) The refusal of a victim to submit to an examination described above shall not prevent the investigation of the offense.

(3) For purposes of this section, a “sex offense” shall have the meaning ascribed in Section 45-33-23(h).

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.