United States First Circuit

Conditions of defendant's supervised release are affirmed. The requirement that he submit to periodic polygraph testing, as a means to ensure his participation in a sex offender treatment program, does not violate his right against self-incrimination, because supervised release will not be revoked based on his refusal to answer polygraph questions on valid Fifth Amendment grounds.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2004
• Published 01/27/2004

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Catherine K. Byrne, with whom the Federal Defender Office was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Hodgens, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, and Virginia M. Vander Jagt, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.