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2024 CODE OF GEORGIA
Title 17 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (§§ 17-1-1 — 17-21-4)
Chapter 5 - SEARCHES AND SEIZURES (§§ 17-5-1 — 17-5-100)
Article 4 - EVIDENCE OF SEXUAL ASSUALT (§§ 17-5-70 — 17-5-74)
Section 17-5-73 - Victim's right to refuse request for polygraph examinations or other truth-telling devices
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GA Code § 17-5-73 (2024)
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No prosecuting attorney, investigating law enforcement agency, or government official shall ask or require any victim of a sexual assault to submit to a polygraph examination or any other truth-telling device as a condition precedent to investigating such alleged crime. The refusal of a victim to submit to a polygraph examination or any other truth-telling device shall not prevent an investigation or prosecution of any sexual assault.
Added by 2008 Ga. Laws 539,§ 3, eff. 5/12/2008.
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