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The psychophysiological veracity examinations have been generally held inadmissible as evidence due to a Federal court ruling in 1923. Which best describes the Frye Standard for the admissibility of scientific evidence in Federal Courts?
Expert opinion based on a scientific technique is inadmissible unless the technique is generally accepted in the particular field in which it belongs.
In the court decision of Dunaway v New York of 1979 which of the following is true?
The U.S. Supreme Court held that when police unconstitutionally seize and detain an individual for interrogation without probable cause, statements made by that individual must be suppressed regardless of giving proper Miranda warnings or voluntariness in the Fifth Amendment sense.
What are the 4 non-exclusive factors that test reliability and set the Judge as a gatekeeper?
Testability, Error Rate, Peer Review & Publication, and General Acceptance
A distinction must be made between false assertions which (may be acceptable) to fabricating evidence (which is impermissible.) Impersonating clergy men or clearly manufacturing evidence is
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In sex offender cases where the examinee is taking a polygraph examination as a condition of their parole or probation, what term would most closely reflect the declaration that the examinee is complying with the request to submit to an examination?
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The most common circumstance supporting a claim of duress in an interrogation is:
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If a truthful examinee is fearful that an error will be made and is erroneously found deceptive, what emotion may be provoked throughout the test?
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The motion of anger may be provoked by an incompetent examiner may elicit what type of result from an innocent examinee?
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Regarding the possibility of an examinee defeating the PV examination while under hypnotically induced amnesia
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An examinee will retain a vague, hazy memory of a crime or maintain and uneasy feeling if
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