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Supreme Court of Hawai’i Rules Presenting Falsified Polygraph Results Is Coercive Per Se

Loaded on Dec. 18, 2019 by Douglas Ankney published in Criminal Legal News January, 2020, page 31
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption. Location: Hawaii.

by Douglas Ankney

The Supreme Court of Hawai’i ruled that when police communicate a deliberate falsehood about the results of a polygraph test during interrogation the falsehood is an extrinsic falsehood that is coercive per se, and any subsequent inculpatory statements are inadmissible at trial.

Keith T. Matsumoto was the ...

 

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