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• Missouri Supreme Court Rules Polygraph Admissible Even Though Defendant Confessed

(This article was originally published in Missouri Lawyers Weekly, St. Louis, MO, another Dolan Media publication.) Polygraph tests were held admissible in a case where police lied to a defendant and told her that she had failed the polygraph test to get her confession. The defendant went on to confess, and the Missouri Supreme Court said the fact that she actually passed the test can be admitted at her trial.

• Daily Record and the Kansas City Daily News-Press
• June 29, 2006

• Recording Admissible

A videotaped copy of a digital surveillance camera recording was admissible in a theft case, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled in reinstating a conviction. The defendant was the night watchman at a high school. He was charged with misdemeanor theft after a digital surveillance camera set up by police captured images of him taking money collected for a fundraiser from the principal's desk.

• Lawyers USA
• October 20, 2011

• Gunshot Location Evidence Admissible, Rules St. Dennis Schaumann

St. Louis Circuit Judge Dennis Schaumann was bound to make history last week. The judge was faced with the first-in-the-nation Frye v. United States challenge to forensic evidence retrieved from a ShotSpotter gunshot location system. On Wednesday, he said the evidence is admissible in the felony case of State v. Roach.

• Missouri Lawyers Media
• November 14, 2011

• What If What Was Published On Facebook Was Admissible As Evidence?

THE ADVENT OF SOCIAL NETWORKS SUCH AS MYSPACE, FACEBOOK, DIASPORA, PHOTOBUCKET, TWITTER, YOU TUBE AND OTHERS HAS BROUGHT SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO SOCIAL...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• 44 CFR 68.9 - Admissible evidence.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 44: Emergency Management and Assistance

• Wyeth's Marketing Efforts Admissible in Prempro Case, Rules Pennsylvania Appellate Court

Evidence of Wyeth's marketing campaign for "off-label" Prempro uses was admissible in a product liability case brought by a woman who contracted breast cancer after taking the drug, a Pennsylvania appellate court has ruled. The plaintiff was diagnosed with breast cancer after taking Prempro, a hormone replacement therapy drug made by Wyeth. She filed a product liability suit governed by Illinois law, alleging that Wyeth knew or should have known that Prempro substantially increased the risk of developing breast cancer and failed to warn prescribing physicians of this risk.

• Lawyers USA
• January 17, 2012

• Judge to Decide If Photos, Confession Admissible

A Kanawha Circuit Judge will decide this week if a confession made by a homeless man and photos of his homeless girlfriend's slashed body will be admissible at his trial next week. Clayton "Gino" Rogers was arrested and charged with first-degree murder the day after the body of Laura Amos, 35, was found inside a vacant St. Albans house Aug. 29.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• January 25, 2011

• Fingerprint Evidence Ruled Admissible Against Howard Co. Burglary Suspect

A judge in Howard County Circuit Court has rejected an accused burglar's attempt to exclude fingerprint evidence linking him to the crime. The decision by retired Judge Dennis M. Sweeney appears to be the first written opinion in a fingerprint challenge since last October, when a Baltimore County judge ruled that a common method of fingerprint analysis was not reliable enough to be used in a murder trial.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• March 28, 2008

• Facebook Content Is Held To Be Admissible In Evidence.

Introduction In a recent decision that reflects a trend in Quebec courts, the Commission des lesions professionnelles (CLP) has held that posts from...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• 7 CFR 1.655 - What evidence is admissible at the hearing?

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 7: Agriculture