Illinois Supreme Court· 12/17/1998

People v. Jefferson

Citations

705 N.E.2d 56
184 Ill. 2d 486
235 Ill. Dec. 443
1998 Ill. LEXIS 1917

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“[T]he general rule in Illinois is to preclude introduction of evidence regarding polygraph examinations and the results of those tests.”
“[T]he trial judge in this case correctly permitted the State to rebut the defendant’s claim of coercion with polygraph evidence.”
voluntariness of a confession is to be determined by the judge alone; however, a defendant may still present evidence to the trier of fact challenging the statement’s reliability or truth
both holding that after confession found voluntary, as threshold legal matter, fact-finder may disregard it as unworthy of belief, given circumstances in which it was made
polygraph evidence may be introduced for the limited purpose of rebutting defendant’s claim of a coerced confession
the State properly permitted “to rebut the defendant’s claim of coercion with polygraph evidence”

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Judges: Miller, Harrison, Nickels

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