Lie-Detection In The News

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Special prosecutor: No charges in Ark. rape case
SI.com
They said Britt and Bryant voluntarily took and passed polygraph tests in December - and that DNA testing showed the three didn't commit the acts they were ...

Police to combat corruption with polygraph tests
Colombia Reports
The Colombian police force will require officers to submit to polygraph tests in a bid to combat links developing between police and members of emerging ...

STATE v. HOOPER
Leagle.com
The juvenile court in Spokane county requires that those petitioning to be relieved of their obligations to register as sex offenders take a polygraph test ...

Woman files civil suit claiming Irvin raped her | Philadelphia Daily News | 02 ...
Philadelphia Daily News
The woman's lawyer, David Lister, would not comment about the Seminole police investigation but said his client had passed a polygraph test.

Teens are acceptible for lie-detection testing
ParentsRights
Age 12 and older are generally acceptable in the polygraph community. Veteran polygraph examiner John Grogan of JuvenilePolygraph.com has ...

Former football star accused of rape
MiamiHerald.com
He said his client had passed a polygraph test. Lister also said his client and Irvin's counsel had been in negotiations for a financial settlement, ...

Finding Deanie: Secrets Revealed
WOOD-TV
In 2008, the newly formed Kent County Metro Cold Case Team took its turn at Diaz, but he said he refused to take a polygraph test. ...

Mother of missing Brooklyn boy released from jail, maintains innocence
Examiner.com
2 after passing a polygraph test that revealed she has no knowledge of her son's whereabouts, according to media reports. Jennifer Rodriguez, 23, is the ...

Opposition demands Rann take lie test
ABC Online
Michelle Chantelois says she has taken a polygraph test and delivered the results and a letter to Mike Rann's office. Mr Rann has denied there was a sexual ...

Maldivian Home Minister visits CBI, CFSL
NetIndian
At the CFSL, the delegation visited the DNA Lab, Computer Forensics & Voice Spectrograph Division, Ballistics Division and Lie Detection Division. ...

Lie detector backs alleged ex-lover
The Australian
The polygraph test, conducted by Australian Polygraph Services, says there are "no strong or consistent unresolved responses" to questions about Ms ...

Leads still scant in vanished millionaire case
OCRegister
Bob Harrod's newlywed wife, Fontelle Harrod, said late last year that police were giving polygraph tests to family members and those close to Bob Harrod. ...

Sex offender notification issued for downtown
Statesman Journal
He must also undergo sex offender treatment and polygraph testing. Secoy is described as white, 5 feet 11 inches tall, 195 pounds with red hair and hazel ...

Bill would expand equipment police can use to detect lies
Roanoke Times
Police would be able to use lie detection equipment other than polygraphs to interrogate a suspect, but only if a state regulatory agency certifies the ...

Where did Hasanni's foster parents go?
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
When the investigation focused on the parents, Ross took a polygraph test. Campbell, who was pregnant at the time, did not take the exam because she worried ...

Brooklyn mom suspected in case of missing son, 7, released from jail after lie ...
New York Daily News
... AND Christina Boyle The Brooklyn mom suspected in the disappearance of her 7-year-old son was released from jail Tuesday after a polygraph test. ...

MSU police report shines some light on altercation, but most blacked out
Detroit Free Press
He also took a polygraph test. Six days later, he was among the nine players facing charges. (A 10th and 11th player — unidentified at the time — were ...

CIA workers trained Wall Street firms to detect lies
The Guardian
But others take on extra work while still employed by the agency, doing everything from teaching at local colleges to training clients in lie-detection ...

The CIA on Wall Street
Marketplace
Where do you suppose a CIA agent trained in lie detection might be in demand? Politico's story is an excerpt from a new book by Eamon Javers: Broker, ...

Panel Recommends Keeping Counselor
News/Talk 750 WSB
The tribunal also found that Robinson was not, technically, guilty of insubordination for refusing to take a school district mandated polygraph test because ...

Give marriage a boost with 'we' word
Indian Express
... of the University of Berkeley, put some 154 couples through "conflict conversations" while monitoring their physiological responses using a polygraph. ...

Student working with Phoenix Police homicide unit
Web Devil
Not many students embrace polygraph tests and background checks, but one ASU undergraduate was thrilled when she was asked to do them for the second time in ...

Feb. 2, 1935: You Lie
Wired News
By Tony Long 1935: A polygraph machine (sometimes known as the “lie detector”) is used for the first time by its co-inventor to bring a conviction in court. ...

Don't Even Think About Lying
Wired (blog)
Later this year, two startups will launch commercial fMRI lie-detection ... The science behind fMRI lie detection has matured with astonishing speed. ...

Judge finds man not guilty in drug case involving controversial squad
Dallas Morning News (blog)
In those cases, witnesses passed polygraph tests about the search. The squad came under scrutiny last year after an arrest put a man behind bars for 10 ...

Embattled Holyoke detective Paul Barkyoumb, put on administrative leave, says ...
MassLive.com
The duo has armed themselves with an inch-thick stack of documents that includes phone ledgers, cell tower analyses, polygraph results and other electronic ...