United States v. Jeffrey A. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• noting that an objection to a condition of supervised release became moot when the condition was modified
• noting that the fact that “polygraph results are inadmissible as evidence” “does not much bear on the therapeutic value of the tool” to advance sentencing goals
• explaining that polygraphs may “deter lying notwithstanding its arguable or occasional unreliability because of the subject’s fear that it might work, or be credited by others whether it works or not”
• noting that because “even the bottom of the range” of polygraph reliability – at “greater-than-50%” – was “still more-likely-than-not, the technology produces an incentive to tell the truth, and thereby advances the sentencing goals”
• upholding ban where defendant previously used the Internet to convince children to meet him and have sex
• upholding condition prohibiting defendant from being “in any area in which persons under the age of 18 are likely to congregate, such as school grounds, child care centers, or playgrounds”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).