Lie-Detection In The News

(short blurbs only, links to entire stories are sent directly to PEOA members; search Google using titles below to read further if you are not a PEOA member)

Extracting truth from witnesses
Standard
Some police departments overseas use polygraphs in their investigations. FBI and CIA require polygraph tests before being employed in some jobs. ...

Lieberman demands polygraph tests over leaks within kitchen cabinet
Ha'aretz
By Barak Ravid Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is demanding that everyone who attended Sunday's meeting of the security cabinet undergo a polygraph test, ...

Feeling Nervous? 3000 Behavior Detection Officers Will Be Watching ...
truthout - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The positions require no scientific background; training in the art of lie detection takes place over the course of less than a week -- "four days of ...

Polygraph test in class
USD Volante Online
By JOSIE CLAREY With palms sweating and tensions high, two students should be taking a polygraph test today at 11 am as part of a political science Policing ...

Investigation into Lee sheriff's relationship with felon finds no wrongdoing
Naples Daily News
Another complaint alleged that polygraph records from Dominick Ferrante's test were intentionally destroyed after his test. Scott told local media that ...

Courtroom First: Brain Scan Used in Murder Sentencing
Wired News - USA
While the possibility of using fMRI data in a variety of contexts, particularly lie detection, has bounced around the margins of the legal system for years,

Ramblings of a desperate man
Times LIVE
The man resigned from his PSL general manager's job on Friday after he failed a lie-detector (polygraph) test. This after claims by discredited referee ...

Evidence-suppression hearing OK'd for woman charged with killing husband
Kentucky.com
The defense had hoped to have the jury hear testimony regarding a polygraph examination of a woman with whom Carl Bartley was allegedly having an affair. ...

Evidence suppression hearing OK'd for woman charged with killing husband
Kentucky.com
The defense had hoped to have a jury hear the results of a polygraph test. The defense said state police interviewed a woman with whom Carl Bartley ...

ARRIFLEX D-21 Captures Eclectic TV Slate
SHOOT Online - USA
Lie To Me stars Tim Roth as a lie detection specialist who determines the truth by interpreting body language and psychology. The show takes advantage of

Would Sach Ka Saamna be revived?
Merinews
The show misuses polygraph machine conducted tests, exposing the contestant's private life in a callous manner. Is it fair to expose these facts of life ...

Ace set to do it for charity
Independent Online
"I will devote my full attention to those who need my advice and assistance back home," said Ncobo, whose resignation comes after he failed a polygraph test ...

Stepfather Pleads Not Guilty To Teen's Slaying
WLKY.com
Court records indicate earlier this month, Shelby agreed to a polygraph test. They also say when police told him his test revealed he was not being truthful ...

Sentencing in child porn case set for Dec. 31
Akron Beacon Journal
31 to four years in prison if he passes a polygraph test relating to his offenses. Additionally, he is to register as a Tier II sex offender, ...