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...well. "We've got to start putting the emphasis on justice rather than game-playing," he says. One pet Bailey prescription is the use of a lie detector on anyone vital to a trial. Courts continue to be reluctant right up to and including the Hearst trial to admit polygraph results as evidence, because they believe their reliability has not been proved. But, Bailey says, police already commonly use polygraphs in their investigations and "will almost never prosecute a man cleared by their own test. And in the military, the polygraph is considered conclusive." Bailey believes that the real judicial...
Such far-reaching changes are not going to happen in time to affect the present task in hand for Bailey?unless he manages to win the admission of Patty's polygraph results despite prosecution objections. For the most part, though, Bailey will have to go with and at the system as it is. Whatever his critics' or opponents' reactions may be, Bailey is sure to enjoy himself. He always does. Last week as the men and women of the jury first took their seats, Bailey's large, seamed face eased into a grin...
Finally, he has had specialists give Patty a polygraph test (a favorite Bailey device); the results, he says, support the claim that she believed herself always under threat. He will fight to have those results admitted at the trial...
...evidence to shake skeptics, presumably including the observers from the Federal Aviation Administration and the North American Air Defense Command. Before repeating the tale of his brief "capture" by a spacecraft that landed near Pascagoula, Miss., in 1973, Fisherman Charles Hickson prudently refused to go through with a promised polygraph examination. On one thing the conferees did agree: in the future the squabbling UFO groups-the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) and the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)-will pool their findings and allow Hynek's new Center for UFO Studies...
...case when he said he had discovered an eyewitness to his father's abduction. "We think we're going to find a successful solution to this crime," he said. But the FBI did not believe the story. Agents are reported to have given the supposed eyewitness two polygraph tests, both of which indicated that he was lying...