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New California Court Of Appeal Decision Highlights the Need to Hire an Aggressive Criminal Defense Attorney

By Walin & Klarich

The California Court of Appeal recently held that incriminating statements made by a defendant, after taking a fake polygraph test, and seeing fake test results, may properly be admitted into evidence. In the present case, a defendant was questioned by police about his involvement in a shooting violent crime which lead to the death of the victim. During questioning, the defendant repeatedly stated his innocence and at numerous times asked to take a polygraph test. After numerous requests to take a ?lie detector test,? officers decided to administer a fake polygraph test. After the fake test was administered, officers told the defendant that he had failed, and that the test showed that he had lied. Upon being presented with the fake results of the fake polygraph test, the defendant then changed his story and admitted to being present at the scene at the time of the violent crime shooting...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).