Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Polygraph in the News - 6/16/2009

The following are articles in which Polygraph is playing an important role in the World. (Article descriptions are mine)

** Please note that many news sources archive/move their articles after a certain period of time. If a story link no longer works, this may be what happened.


  • Three guys commit a crime. One rolls over on the other two to get a deal after failing the polygraph twice. He claims the other two did the crime and he just showed up at the end, however, there is no follow up polygraph test to see if he is now telling the whole story. An attorney for one of the other suspects makes, in my opinion, a valid argument. How can you trust the testimony of this one guy if he failed two tests and claims he's innocent but they are guilty. Why not a third polygraph to make sure he is now being completely truthful? Is this because a confession is more important than the truth? I don't know. What do you think?
    http://www.detnews.com/article/20090614/METRO/906140312/1409/METRO/Attorney-questions-polygraph-in-Downriver-beating-case

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