(This article was originally published in Missouri Lawyers Weekly, St. Louis, MO, another Dolan Media publication.) Polygraph tests were held admissible in a case where police lied to a defendant and told her that she had failed the polygraph test to get her confession. The defendant went on to confess, and the Missouri Supreme Court said the fact that she actually passed the test can be admitted at her trial.
ATLANTA - Yet another appeal denied, Troy Davis was left with little to do today but wait to be executed for a murder he insists he did not commit. He lost his most realistic chance to avoid lethal injection on Tuesday, when Georgia's pardons board rejected his appeal for clemency. As his scheduled 7 p.m. execution neared, his backers resorted to far-fetched measures. They asked prisons officials to let him take a polygraph test; urged prison workers to strike or call in sick; asked prosecutors to block the execution and they even considered a desperate appeal for White House intervention.
The attorney for embattled Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard, who has been under political pressure to relinquish his leadership position after being involved in a domestic violence incident Feb. 25, today released the results of a polygraph test that shows he is telling the truth. In the three-question exam, Bundgaard said he did not touch Aubry Ballard with the intention of harming her during a physical altercation on the side of the freeway, nor did he claim legislative immunity when he was detained by the police at the scene. He also said he told the police that he had had to take his handgun from Ballard during the fracas.
Polygraph tests rely on the hypothesis that a subject's body yields physiologically different symptoms if he or she is lying. When a polygraph test is administered, a mechanical apparatus records the subject's physiological changes, and the polygrapher conducting the examination interprets the data. Polygraph results factor into choices ranging from indictment determinations to employment decisions. While other segments of society use polygraph results, courts remain reluctant to admit them. Although only two federal circuits employ common law bans against polygraph evidence, district courts in every circuit consistently reject polygraph evidence. Similarly, many state courts have excluded polygraph evidence for all purposes. Unfortunately, many of these courts can only exclude polygrap...
NEWARK, N.J., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In a stunning turn of events, the murder of five teens in 1978 was solved by the recent confession of one of the killers, Lee Anthony Evans. Evans was the main suspect at the time of the initial investigation and took at least one polygraph test, which he passed. With no leads and the main suspect cleared, the case went cold for 32 years. This case is yet another example of what the critics of the polygraph call a misplaced reliance on the pseudoscience of polygraph. They cite the many cases in which criminals passed the polygraph and were later found to be guilty of the crimes. Cases such as the "Green River Killer." In that case, Gary Leon Ridgeway, was a suspect in the killing of four women and was given a polygraph, which he passed. Ridgeway wa...
In a curt February 16 letter, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed a 60-page report by the Republican staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs that demanded Berger be given the polygraph test he agreed to take in order to determine the extent of his theft of materials from the Archives.
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