DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES v. SCRUGGS

No. 1083, September Term, 1988.

79 Md. App. 312 (1989)

556 A.2d 736

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES v. GREGORY A. SCRUGGS.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

April 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott S. Oakley, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Nancy Black, Baltimore, and Susan Goering, for amicus curiae, American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, Inc.

Barry C. Steel, Towson, for appellee.

Argued Before WILNER, KARWACKI, and POLLITT, JJ.


POLLITT, Judge.

This case confronts us with the question of whether the long-standing prohibition of polygraph evidence in Maryland judicial proceedings also applies under the "relaxed" evidentiary standards of administrative proceedings. While the parameters of the rule are well-settled within our trial courts, we have been referred to no Maryland appellate decision squarely addressing the issue in the context of administrative proceedings. After an extensive review...

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