Lie-Detection In The News

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Video: Nicole Howell teacher accused of having sex with student found not guilty
Examiner.com
She passed the polygraph test, and spoke out in court in her own defense in an attempt to clear her own name. Howell, 26 was found not guilty, but said that ...

Two jailed men cleared in 1997 Dallas murder case
WFAA
The arrests clear the way for the exoneration of Simmons and Scott, both of whom have already passed polygraph exams. Both men have always maintained their ...

Fired female officer files harassment complaint
Prattville Progress
Based on Fulmer's investigation and recommendations, a polygraph test was scheduled for both parties. On Aug. 20, at 8:15 am, Spraggins was given a test by ...

Officers hired to oversee convicted sex offenders
Charleston Gazette
The supervision includes polygraph tests and electronic monitoring. The officers were hired as part of the Child Protection Act of 2006. ...

Watch Tony Stewart Take LIVE BK Polygraph Today; Bid On Estrada Glasses!
Autochannel (press release)
REMINDER - TONY STEWART TAKING POLYGRAPH TEST TODAY! He says he loves the WHOPPER(r). And he'll take a polygraph administered by John Grogan to prove it. Watch Burger King put Tony ...

Police 'fooled' during internal probe
Steamboat Pilot
Vanatta said his department interviewed Johnson and Merwin, as well as made Johnson take a polygraph test administered by the Mesa County Sheriff's Office. ...

Carty indicted again in 1982 Lower Township slaying
Press of Atlantic City
Batten also found that a detective improperly told the grand jury that Carty was "highly deceptive" during a polygraph examination when that was not an ...

Polygraph proves Tony Stewart does love the Whopper
Examiner.com
Tony Stewart proved he loves the Whopper in live polygraph. Shown is recent Burger King Commercial Tony Stewart's live polygraph test administered by John Grogan to prove ...

Raju unwilling to undergo tests
Daily News & Analysis
Hyderabad: B Ramalinga Raju, the jailed founder-chairman of SatyamComputer Services, is not willingto go through the polygraph and brain mapping tests to be ...

Court orders CSIS to hand over secret file
The Canadian Press
In his ruling, Noel said CSIS "undermined the integrity" of the court's work by failing to disclose relevant details of a polygraph examination of another ...

Vernon Woman Charged With Lying About Assault
Hartford Courant
Police said they eventually discovered the call was a hoax. Fish failed a polygraph exam and confessed to making up her complaint, police said.

Last convicted murderer of medical student is released
Slovak Spectator
At that time Andrášik and Kocúr did not take the polygraph tests because they were incarcerated in Leopoldov prison and the prison's director refused their ...

Bravata investors unlikely to recover funds, official says
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Bravata, who was charged with investment fraud by the US Securities and Exchange Commission in July, said Monday that he passed a polygraph examination that ...

AP HC posts hearing to conduct lie detector tests on Ramalinga Raju
Economic Times
The apex investigation body wanted the three to undergo a lie detector and polygraph test as the trio refused to divulge any crucial information when ...

FBI Joins Investigation Of Brighton Businessman
WHMI
Bravata is due in federal court tomorrow for an evidentiary hearing in the civil case, where he's also seeking to have results of a polygraph exam admitted ...

Missing Polk County woman's husband re-files for divorce
WQOW TV News 18
... kids and he wants sole custody so he re-filed. Police have said a number of times that he's not a suspect. He passed a polygraph after she disappeared.

7 troopers lose pay in Rider case
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
That probe was dropped in July 2008 after the troopers passed polygraph tests and provided DNA samples. Lawyers for the troopers have said the off-duty ...

Heene parents could lose children over balloon boy hoax
Examiner.com
The Sheriff's office did ask the family to take a polygraph on Saturday. They didn't ask the family to do the test on Friday because of the stress the ...