COURT BAN ON EVIDENCE CHALLENGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300260027-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: October 24, 1958
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Air rorce petitioned the
United States Court of 1%,filita-1
ry Appeals yesterday for,"clar
ification" of a recent decision'
barring evidence obtained!
through inadmissible confes-'
sions from courts-martial.
In the case of Airman Cyrus
W. Haynes the court ruled out
evidence which the defense
claimned . had been obtained
through a cgnfidential lie-de
tector? secity test. , -
Tudge Homer Fe.,rguson
wrote the decision. in which
Chief Judge Robert QiIinn con-
curred.- The Air Force in its
unusual request saicF;it was un-
able to determine if Jude
Quinn had agreed *ith Judge
Ferguson in invalidating a sec-
tion of the Manual of Courts-
Martial.
Marry S. Wender. attorney
for Haynes. said he would pro
test the pkition if the airman 's'
release was delayed by a hear-i
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