Saturday, March 20, 2010

Lie-Detection In The News

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Officers' Polygraph Tests In Miles Case Obtained
KDKA
The polygraph examiner asked all three officers pretty much the same four questions with a different word here or there or the officer's name as the only ...

No jail time for indecency with a child
KGNS
... a one hundred dollar donation to the children's advocacy center. Garcia will have to undergo a polygraph exam in the next 60 days and every year after that.

VPD Selective in Picking New Officers
Valley Voice
If they get through the two levels of interviews, they are then subjected to a background check, a polygraph, a medical exam, a psychological evaluation and ...

March Madness at the circus
Creative Loafing Tampa (blog)
In center ring of Cirque du Dysfunction last week embattled County Administrator, Pat Bean, gave Commissioners copies of her polygraph results regarding the ...

Family, friends will miss former polygraph expert
Aiken Standard
He retired to Aiken after a long career both in law enforcement and successfully running his own business as a polygraph expert. Beller worked for the State ...

Showdown looms for Hillsborough County commissioners
ABC Action News
"I participated in a polygraph exam. I have a copy of the results of that exam to give to give all of you here today,” Bean said last week. ...

IN RE MATTER OF TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OF ADOPTION OF DOE
Leagle.com
On December 16, 2005, the State filed a motion to revoke Father's probation, apparently because he was not truthful during a polygraph examination on ...

Chairman to press for firings for county officials
Tampa Tribune
She took a polygraph test and submitted the results to the commission to back up those claims. She has issued no statements since then and has not returned ...

Officers In Jordan Miles Case Pass Polygraph Test
KDKA
Meantime, attorneys representing the police officers say a polygraph exam helps to clear their names. The federal grand jury subpoena sent to the city's law ...

Threats on NPSC probe
Nagaland Post
... likely to take the arrested accused outside the state for various tests including Polygraph test, Narco-analysis test and Lie detection test very soon. ...

Study Brings Researchers, Governments One Step Closer to Mind Reading
DailyTech
That concept has been fodder for countless science fiction works, and in essence is the goal of lie detection machines. Unfortunately, to date, lie ...

Union: Three accused Pittsburgh officers pass lie detector tests
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
By Jill King Greenwood Three Pittsburgh police officers accused of beating a Homewood teenager during a January arrest near his home passed polygraph tests ...

DNA study OK for Dunn trial
Russellville Courier
Defense attorneys and prosecutors are also expected to discuss the use of statements Dunn made to investigators prior to taking a polygraph test shortly ...

WGMD News
WGMD Radio
These include the use of emerging technologies like clinical polygraph examinations, computer monitoring, and GPS tracking, which we're currently using to ...

Canaan man held on bond; denies sex assault charge
Waterbury Republican American
Gary Hatstat, 39, of 30 Raymond Ave., confessed after a polygraph test suggested he was lying, according to details of a warrant made public here Friday. ...