CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE - EVIDENCE - ADMISSIBILITY OF LIE DETECTOR TESTS IN EVIDENCE

Authors

Michigan Law Review, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

After all the evidence had been produced for the jury's consideration in a murder trial, defendant's counsel moved to reopen the case and be permitted to take defendant to a laboratory to be examined under a pathometer, or lie detector. Held, that as the court could not take judicial notice that the instrument was or was not effective for determining the truth, because the record gave no indication of general scientific recognition, the motion was denied. People v. Forte, 279 N. Y. 204, 18 N. E. (2d) 31, affg. (King Co. Ct. 1938) 4 N. Y. S. (2d) 913.

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE - EVIDENCE - ADMISSIBILITY OF LIE DETECTOR TESTS IN EVIDENCE, 37 Mich. L. Rev. 1141 (1939).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol37/iss7/19