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United States Vs. Scheffer

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 31, 1998

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  5. U.S. 303 (1998) October Term, 1997 Syllabus United States V. Scheffer
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  6. restrictions to accommodate other legitimate interests in the criminal trial process. See, e. g., Rock v. Arkansas
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  7. s precedents. The three cases principally relied upon by the Court of Appeals, Rock, supra, at 57, Washington v. Texas
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  8. U. S. 14 , 23, and Chambers v. Mississippi
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  9. s right to present relevant evidence is not unlimited, but rather is subject to reasonable restrictions.4 See Taylor v. Illinois
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  10. accord, Michigan v. Lucas
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  11. Washington v. Texas
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  12. see also Daubert v. Merrell
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  13. leaving its admission or exclusion to the discretion of district courts under Daubert, see, e. g., United States v. Posado
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  14. United States v. Cordoba
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  15. CA9 1997), at least one Federal Circuit has recently reaffirmed its per se ban, see United States v. Sanchez
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  16. United States v. Messina
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  17. F.3d 36 , 42 (CA2 1997). Most States maintain per se rules excluding polygraph evidence. See, e. g., State v. Porter
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  18. People v. Gard
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  19. Perkins v. State
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  20. and state courts were uniform in categorically ruling polygraph evidence inadmissible under the test set forth in Frye v. United
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  21. scientific evidence must gain the general acceptance of the relevant expert community to be admissible. In Daubert v. Merrell
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  22. neither federal nor state courts found any Sixth Amendment obstacle to the categorical rule. See, e. g., Bashor v. Risley
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  23. People v. Price
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  24. state and federal courts continue to express doubt about whether such evidence is reliable. See, e. g., United States v. Messina
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  25. United States v. Posado
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  26. State v. Porter
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  27. United States v. Barnard
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  28. means of avoiding itY D The three of our precedents upon which the Court of Appeals principally relied, Rock v. Arkansas
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  29. and Chambers v. Mississippi
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  30. was allegedly able to remember the facts of the killing only after having her memory hypnotically refreshed. See Rock v. Arkansas
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  31. from introducing his accomplice's testimony that the accomplice had in fact committed the crime. See Washington v. Texas
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  32. and its hearsay rule that excluded the testimony of three persons to whom that witness had confessed. See Chambers v. Mississippi
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  33. given to the trial court in admitting or excluding scientific evidence is not a constitutional mandate, see Daubert v. Merrell
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  34. the stronger evidence is inadmissible. Under the now discredited reasoning in a case decided 75 years ago, Frye v. United
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  35. inadmissible.2 Well reasoned opinions are concluding, consistently with this Court's decisions in Daubert v. Merrell
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  36. Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U. S. 579 (1993), and General Electric Co. v. Joiner
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  37. United States v. Piccinonna
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  38. the foundation for admission of favorable polygraph evidence. United States v. Gipson
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  39. see also, e. g., United States v. Carter
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  40. common-law rule categorically excluding defense evidence in treason and felony cases.10 Our holding in Washington v. Texas
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  41. Few rights are more fundamental than that of an accused to present witnesses in his own defense, see, e. g., Chambers v. Mississippi
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  42. Taylor v. Illinois
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  43. of unreliability was unconstitutional.12 The blanket rule of inadmissibility held invalid in Wash ington v. Texas
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  44. Benson v. United
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  45. Syllabus United States V. Scheffer
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  46. See Taylor v. Illinois
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  47. Michigan v. Lucas
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  48. Daubert v. Merrell
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  49. Frye v. United
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  50. In Daubert v. Merrell
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