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Polygraphs can be used as evidence, but you would have to be a moron to submit to one, and refusing one cannot be used as evidence of guilt.


I’m very curious about your last sentence. Are you basing this on the fifth amendment, or something else.


FWIW, in PA, it can't be brought up in court as evidence that you refused to take a polygraph. Nationally, we have a right to remain silent, so I imagine it's not much different elsewhere, but IANAL, so there could be some tricks cops/prosecutors can play in other states. There's no connection to the fifth amendment.




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