Shareda Hope Rawls v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that error in referring to a polygraph examination was not harmless in part because the reference was “introduced deliberately by an experienced FBI agent”
• holding that a curative instruction given for deliberate introduction of a comment regarding a polygraph test was ineffective in curing the prejudicial error because “[s]uch an instruction ... is very close to an instruction to unring a bell”
• expecting jurors to disregard prosecution witness’ testimony that defendant was asked to take a polygraph examination “is very close to an instruction to unring a bell”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).