Guesfeird v. State

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a mistrial was required after key prosecution witness blurted out that she took a lie detector test
• concluding that the prejudice to the defendant could not be effectively cured by the trial judge’s timely curative instruction and noting that “rather than being curative, such an instruction might only serve to emphasize the prejudice”
• reiterating firm rule that polygraph tests are not admissible, including fact of taking such a test
• \Simply putting before the jury the fact that a lie detector test was taken can be the equivalent of revealing the results.\
• quot-ed by Carter, 366 Md. at 590, 785 A.2d 348; Rainville, 328 Md. at 408, 614 A.2d 949
• inadvertent blurt that another witness took a lie detector test was adequately remedied by curative instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).