Download This PaperAdmissibility and Constitutional Issues of the Concealed Information Test in American Courts: An Update
Detecting Concealed Information and Deception: Recent Updates (J. Peter Rosenfeld Ed., 2018)
25 Pages Posted: 24 Feb 2022
Date Written: September 1, 2018
Abstract
The use of physiological tools to detect incidentally acquired concealed knowledge about crime-related information has been a controversial and well-researched topic among scholars for well over 100 years. This chapter focuses on potential legal hurdles for courtroom use of concealed information tests, including admissibility issues and constitutional issues under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the US Constitution.
Keywords: CIT, Lie detection, law & neuroscience, law
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Meixner Jr., John B., Admissibility and Constitutional Issues of the Concealed Information Test in American Courts: An Update (September 1, 2018). Detecting Concealed Information and Deception: Recent Updates (J. Peter Rosenfeld Ed., 2018), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3707292
