Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Quatermain v. United States

446 U.S. 954

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1980-05-19
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • finding that a government employee’s statement did not meet any of the hearsay exceptions
  • “Nothing in the Federal Rules of Evidence suggests an intention to alter the traditional [Santos ] rule and defendant has cited no truly contrary case indicating [a trend otherwise].”
  • “This court has persistently refused to adopt [a per se rule against admissibility of polygraphs], choosing rather to leave the decision on admissibility to the sound discretion of the district court.”

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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied.