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STATE v. SANTIAGO

No. 95-3829.

679 So.2d 861 (1996)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Johnny A. SANTIAGO, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 18, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melynda L. Melear, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Karen M. Gottlieb, Coconut Grove, and Robert E. Godwin, Miami, for respondent.

KLEIN, Judge.

The trial court, after a pretrial evidentiary hearing, ruled that the result of defendant's polygraph test, which was favorable to defendant, would be admitted in evidence at trial. We grant the state's petition for certiorari because our supreme court has held that polygraph tests are inadmissible as a matter of law. We certify the question as one of great public importance, so that it can be reconsidered...

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