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Bryant, Billy Ray

Citations

  • 448 S.W.3d 29
  • 2014 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1877
  • 2014 WL 6478637

How courts have described this case

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  • acknowledging desire to avoid drawing additional attention to unfavorable evidence is a reasonably sound strategic motivation for not objecting
  • “Polygraph evidence is generally excluded from courtrooms because the reliability of such tests remains unproven and jurors could attach undue credibility to a test that purports to sort truth from fiction, a role for which a factfinder is more properly suited.”

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Judges: Hervey, Meyers, Price, Johnson, Keasler, Cochran, Alcala, Keller, Womack

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