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Sisson v. State

Citations

  • 353 S.E.2d 836
  • 181 Ga. App. 784
  • 1987 Ga. App. LEXIS 2576

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  • recognizing that independent analysis is “ ‘the only means by which the defendant can defend against expert testimony by the State’ ”
  • recognizing that independent analysis is \`the only means by which the defendant can defend against expert testimony by the State'\
  • party’s stipulation to admission of testimony or evidence does not preclude that party from contesting accuracy of testimony or evidence; admissibility does not equate to incontestability
  • “Merely because a party stipulates to admissibility of testimony or evidence, does not deny that party the right to contest the accuracy of that testimony or evidence.”
  • “ ‘The results’ of a lie detector test can be interpreted to be (1) the charts resulting from a graphing of the responses of the person tested, and/or (2) the opinion of the expert based on those charts.”

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Judges: Birdsong, Banke, Sognier

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