U.S. v. CORDOBA

No. 98-50082.

194 F.3d 1053 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Frank Javier CORDOBA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 12, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig Wilke, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Santa Ana, California, for the defendant-appellant.

Elizabeth R. Abrams, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before: GOODWIN, BRUNETTI, and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges.


BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge:

The issue of the admissibility of polygraph evidence has a long and controversial history in the courts. In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 113 S.Ct. 2786, 125 L.Ed.2d 469 (1993), the question of whether polygraph evidence is reliable enough to be admissible in a trial has once again come into issue. On this, the second appeal in...

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