Matter of Jayline J. (Jarren J.)

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an officer’s extrinsic falsehood about polygraph results was per se coercive and rendered the defendant’s confession involuntary
• “Extensive scientific literature and numerous documented cases have demonstrated the coercive nature of falsified polygraph test results[.]”
• “The reasons for barring coerced admissions include . . . a desire that the police not become law breakers in the process of achieving society’s valid law enforcement objectives.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• deliberately falsifying results of a polygraph test per se coercive, so statements excluded
• “[F]alse polygraph results may psychologically prime an innocent suspect to make a confession.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).