Lie-Detection In The News

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Sandwich finds new baseball star
Aurora Beacon News
According to a document reviewed by The Beacon-News, Morse passed the polygraph. John Morse said he submitted that same document to ACS, but on Jan. ...

Former ESC supervisor describes chaos at jobless agency
Greenville News
“I was asked to take a polygraph regarding questionable conversion and supervisory actions I witnessed,” she wrote. “My polygraph result was 'no deception. ...

Mother accused of killing infant son competent to stand trial
Middletown Journal
Detective Mark Hayes testified Avila-Villa failed a polygraph test at the Hamilton Police Department in the hours after she reported her child missing. ...

DNA Match Leads To Arrest In Slaying
CBS 4
He took a polygraph and had DNA samples taken. "I wanted them to clear me," he said, "and they did." He began to hear whispers. Word began to spread that he ...

PEOPLE v. JACKSON
Leagle.com
Furthermore, the claims of innocence by defendant at the polygraph examination were directly contrary to his admissions of guilt at the Iowa trial.

Celebrity blogger tested by polygraph expert John Grogan in Los Angeles
ActionNews
Some of his outspoken claims were actually already proven with interviews of the other party, including in an interview published in the current issue of Playboy magazine ...

Florida Cop Fired After Demanding Free Starbucks Rehired
FOXNews
... that Garvin also cut in front of paying customers. Chief Mike Chitwood says Garvin was fired after failing a polygraph test that he insisted on taking.

Defence grills officer who tried to extract confession
Sault Star
During his talk with Chaylt, Marshall asked if he would consent to taking a polygraph and suggested he wouldn't pass a lie detector examination. ...

Officer accused of demanding free coffee rehired
MiamiHerald.com
Chief Mike Chitwood says Garvin was fired after failing a polygraph test that he insisted on taking. Arbiter George Mayer criticized an internal affairs ...

Former Union supervisor pleads guilty to extortion
Spartanburg Herald Journal
He also will be subjected to a polygraph exam. Betenbaugh, Randall and former Union Sheriff Howard Wells were among five men named in federal indictments in ...

Josh Duhamel Stripper Claims She's Pregnant
Hollyscoop
Josh has vehemently denied Nicole's claims since the beginning, despite the fact that she passed a polygraph test that showed she was telling the truth ...

Official: Surveillance wasn't of critic of Portsmouth sheriff
The Virginian-Pilot
The men assigned to the vehicles did not recognize Gump's name and were willing to take polygraph tests, Cherry said. “However, before they took the ...

Interim DPS Director Robert Halliday slated for confirmation hearing today
AZFamily
The e-mail, which was sent anonymously, also asked why Halliday, the governor's pick to head up DPS, did not have to take a polygraph test. ...

Pawlenty: Time to get tougher on sex crimes
Pioneer Press
From 2008 to 2009, however, judges ordered only 38 offenders into the civil program, which includes extensive therapy and regular polygraph testing. ...

Josh Duhamel Stripper 'Pregnant With His Child'
Showbiz Spy
... a rigorous independently administered polygraph test that showed she was telling the truth about her marathon sex session with the 37-year-old actor. ...

Fired lieutenant wins back job
Daytona Beach News-Journal
However, it was Garvin's insistence that he get a polygraph test and the fact that he failed the exam that sunk the lieutenant, Chitwood and Walton said. ...

1990 Hampton slaying victim's sister: 'All I want to know is why'
Daily Press
The landlord was given a polygraph test. According to affidavits, he was "deceptive on all questions concerning the death of Grant. ...