Court Opinion

ID: 9626483
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 08:14:18.043956+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:01:51.635163
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Groves
specially concurring:
The added weight that tips the scale causing my concurrence in the majority opinion is the publicity given to the use of the polygraph — and more especially the publication of Dr. Keeler’s opinion that Walker was lying when he denied guilt. This particular publicity, combined with the other matters set forth in the majority opinion, to my mind created a situation where under the rules of Sheppard, Walker was deprived of his constitutional right to a fair trial. If there had been no publicity with *488respect to the use of the polygraph and Dr. Keeler’s opinion, I would dissent.