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United States v. Scheffer 523 U.S. 303 (1998) was the first case in which the Supreme Court issued a ruling with regard to the highly controversial matter of polygraph or lie-detector testing. At issue was whether the per se exclusion of polygraph evidence offered by the accused in a military court violates the Sixth Amendment right to present a defense.