Lie-Detection In The News

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Urban: Terminate Hyder for removing prison polygraph results
Citizens Voice
Prospective prison employees take polygraph tests. Hyder hasn't worked at the prison since August but is technically still a prison employee because he is ...

Union raps jail board for action on award
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Commissioner Stephen Urban asked DeLuca and Warden Joseph Piazza to investigate whether former deputy warden Sam Hyder improperly removed polygraph test ...

"Kissing Sailor" Falls on Hard Times
NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
A Houston police forensic scientist said McDuffie has passed 10 polygraph tests, proving "beyond a doubt" that he is the kissing sailor. ...

Judge Orders Polygraphs for Rape Victims
CBS News
For reasons still unclear, a judge ordered four teenage sex-assault victims to take polygraph tests -- after she convicted the boys accused in the cases. ...

Judge orders polygraphs for sex-assault victims
Kansas City Star (blog)
A judge in a Cleveland juvenile court has ordered four teenage girls, victims of sexual assault, to undergo polygraph testing, the Plain-Dealer reports. ...

Judging Rape.
Tapped (blog)
An Ohio judge has ordered teenage sexual assault victims in four separate cases to undergo polygraph tests, along with the teenage boys who were convicted, ...

Ohio judge upsets sex-assault victims by ordering polygraph tests; her reasons ...
Cleveland News - Fox 8
By AP CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio judge has upset four teenage sex-assault victims by ordering the girls to take polygraph tests after she convicted the boys ...

Murder suspect's second trial to be heard by judge
Toledo Blade
The judge had ruled prior to the trial that any references to a polygraph could not be admitted as evidence. Defense attorney Dave Klucas declined to ...

Cuyahoga Juvenile Court Judge Alison Floyd orders sex assault victims to take ...
Plain Dealer (blog)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Juvenile Court judge has ordered at least four teenage girls who were victims of sexual assault to submit to polygraph tests, ...

CAPA Student's Mother Questions Police-Administered Polygraph
WPXI Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH -- The mother of a CAPA student who said he was beaten by Pittsburgh Police told Channel 11 Wednesday she is questioning the polygraph test given ...

Senators grill Obama nominee Mari Carmen Aponte's ties to Cuban officials
Daily Caller
Mari Carmen Aponte denied having had any contact with Cuban intelligence but admitted to socializing with Cuban officials and refusing to take a polygraph ...

Justice Department investigating police beating of CAPA student
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
An attorney for one of the three officers under investigation said the three officers took and passed a polygraph test in connection with the case. ...

STATE v. DURSUNOV
Leagle.com
Dursunov, whose native language is not English, [ 1 ] was provided a Russian interpreter for the psychosexual1 examination that included a polygraph test. ...

Woman gets 10 years in teen sex case
Newnan Times-Herald
Der initially denied engaging in sex acts with the juvenile but later failed a polygraph exam and confessed to having sex with him. ...

Suspect arrested in 2008 bomb threat case
Andrews Journal
During the course of the shaken-baby investigation, Grant agreed to submit to a polygraph test. State Trooper Brad Hoxit contacted the sheriff's office and ...