Polygraph Testing
2. After the attacks of September 11 there was new and seemingly urgent justification for further militarization of America’s police department to be able to protect the country from terrorism.
3. The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides that "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized” (Buren). Searches and seizures of someone’s home without a warrant are presumptively unreasonable.
However, there are some exceptions. A warrantless search may …show more content…
The polygraph test is used in four different areas that include law enforcement agencies, the legal community, government agencies, and private sectors (Clayton). It’s a machine that will measure responses from the person’s body during an interview, usually the person is being ask questions about their past. Passing a polygraph test or can be called a “lie detector” test, is often a requirement during pre-employment screening for a career in law enforcement or if involved in a crime.
On the other hand, the results of the polygraph test should not be admissible as evidence in a criminal trial because as we all know every technology device in this world can have errors and do to its measuring the person’s body collecting physiological data from at least three systems in the body.
Therefore, if your nervous for the test even though you are innocent or have nothing to do with what they are interviewing you the results may come out suspicious making it look bad for you in the eyes of others reviewing the results. All in all, the polygraph test admissibility varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In a few states they have ban it completely and others allow results by conditions and some allow the polygraph results as evidence over
3. The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides that "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized” (Buren). Searches and seizures of someone’s home without a warrant are presumptively unreasonable.
However, there are some exceptions. A warrantless search may …show more content…
The polygraph test is used in four different areas that include law enforcement agencies, the legal community, government agencies, and private sectors (Clayton). It’s a machine that will measure responses from the person’s body during an interview, usually the person is being ask questions about their past. Passing a polygraph test or can be called a “lie detector” test, is often a requirement during pre-employment screening for a career in law enforcement or if involved in a crime.
On the other hand, the results of the polygraph test should not be admissible as evidence in a criminal trial because as we all know every technology device in this world can have errors and do to its measuring the person’s body collecting physiological data from at least three systems in the body.
Therefore, if your nervous for the test even though you are innocent or have nothing to do with what they are interviewing you the results may come out suspicious making it look bad for you in the eyes of others reviewing the results. All in all, the polygraph test admissibility varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In a few states they have ban it completely and others allow results by conditions and some allow the polygraph results as evidence over