{"id":4839,"date":"2023-07-28T05:44:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T10:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2023-07-28T05:44:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T10:44:25","slug":"south-dakota-supreme-court-upholds-per-se-exclusion-of-unstipulated-polygraph-results-in-sentencing-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2023\/07\/28\/south-dakota-supreme-court-upholds-per-se-exclusion-of-unstipulated-polygraph-results-in-sentencing-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota Supreme Court Upholds Per Se Exclusion of Unstipulated Polygraph Results in Sentencing Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230728102408\/https:\/\/ujs.sd.gov\/uploads\/sc\/opinions\/298752736ee1.pdf\">16-page ruling<\/a>, the South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a circuit court&#8217;s refusal to consider a defense-proffered polygraph examination in connection with a sentencing hearing. Bob Mercer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keloland.com\/news\/capitol-news-bureau\/sd-justices-uphold-judges-denial-of-polygraph-results\/\">reports<\/a> for KELOLAND News (excerpt):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) \u2014 A Minnehaha County circuit judge didn\u2019t err when she refused to consider the results of a lie-detector test offered by one of the men who admitted they participated in the killing of a pizza delivery man three years ago, according to the South Dakota Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The justices publicly released\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ujs.sd.gov\/uploads\/sc\/opinions\/298752736ee1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">their unanimous opinion<\/a>\u00a0Thursday. They rejected the appeal from Raymond Banks and supported Circuit Judge Robin Houwman\u2019s decision to not allow the polygraph results.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The appellant, Raymond Banks, had asked the court to consider the results of an unstipulated polygraph examination privately conducted by polygraph operator <a href=\"https:\/\/midwestcredibility.com\/about\">Mike D. Webb<\/a> of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 16-page ruling, the South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a circuit court&#8217;s refusal to consider a defense-proffered polygraph examination in connection with a sentencing hearing. Bob Mercer reports for KELOLAND News (excerpt): PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) \u2014 A Minnehaha County circuit judge didn\u2019t err when she refused to consider the results of a lie-detector &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,353],"class_list":{"0":"post-4839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-admissibility","8":"tag-south-dakota","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4841,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}