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STATE v. LAFOREST

No. 5288.

106 N.H. 159 (1965)

STATE v. DONALD LAFOREST.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided February 26, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Maynard, Attorney General and George S. Pappagianis, Deputy Attorney General (Mr. Pappagianis orally), for the State.

Nicholas Pantelas (by brief and orally), for the defendant.

Thomas J. Leonard, Jr. for the juvenile witness, filed no brief.

KENISON, C.J.

Polygraph and scientific tests to determine deception are familiar investigative devices in criminal investigation and are employed generally in industry and government for various purposes. Inbau & Reid, Lie Detection and Criminal Interrogation (3d ed. 1953); Silving, Testing the Unconscious in Criminal Cases, 69 Harv. L. Rev. 683 (1956); 50 A.B.A. J. 470 (1964). See also, Hearings Before Committee on Government Operations of House of Representatives...

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