Word: lie-detector
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...salesman, but the investigation continued. The husband, Lester Harp, was brought to the district attorney's office for further questioning, and eventually the three Harp boys were also brought in. To clear up some points, Assistant District Attorney Loys Criswell asked if the three would mind taking a lie-detector test. Before they answered, their father took them aside for a family consultation and returned with some surprising news: "Bruce wants to tell you something...
...said NBC, had cast doubt on the testimony of two key witnesses: Vernon Bundy, a 29-year-old narcotics addict, and Perry Raymond Russo, 26, an insurance salesman. A test given Bundy "indicated he was lying," said NBC Anchorman Frank McGee, and "New Orleans Assistant District Attorney Charles Ward was informed of this." Though Ward told Garrison that "in view of the lie-detector test, Bundy should not be allowed to testify," he was overruled...
...flaw in the system, which is unchallenged chatter that hits print between arrest and trial. Elaborate trial rules permit jurors to hear admissible evidence subject to searching crossexamination; the whole system is subverted when the press fills jurors' heads with inadmissible evidence-prior criminal records, rumored confessions, "flunked" lie-detector tests, a police chief's claim that "we got the right man." Some prosecutors announce indictments with unforgettable declarations of guilt. Defense lawyers then counter with vivid rebuttals-all of which may be read by prospective jurors...
...pale, sunken shadow of his once robust self, Ruby continued to look back on the assassination even in his final illness. Though his claim has already been corroborated by two lie-detector tests, he wants to take another test, says his brother Earl, "so that people will be convinced that there was no plan on his part, or conspiracy of any kind," to kill Oswald. "There is nothing to hide," Ruby said last week. "There was no one else...
...week running his own detective agency, which handled 2,000 cases for criminal lawyers while teaching Bailey his key skill-indefatigable investigation. After law school, Bailey attended Chicago's Keeler Polygraph Institute, then helped an elderly Boston lawyer defend an accused wife killer who had flunked a lie-detector test. Bailey was hired merely to cross-examine the prosecution polygrapher. But during the trial, his boss, 72, collapsed of a heart attack. Bailey, then 27, took over and won the case. After that, he was hired by the four suspects in U.S. history's biggest cash heist...