Word: polygraphing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Massachussetts courts this week will rule on the admissability of polygraph tests as evidence in criminal cases...
Massachusetts courts will decide whether to admit polygraph tests in four different cases currently on trial. The defenses of three cases involving sexual assault and one of murder are arguing to admit defendants' liedetector tests as evidence...
...September, Lonetree agreed to cooperate with investigators in exchange for the possibility of a five-year reduction of his 30-year sentence. The Navy expected him finally to admit to the embassy spying. Instead, Lonetree's interrogation, which included polygraph tests, has convinced top-ranking officials that he has been telling the truth in denying that he let Soviets into the embassy. Said one investigator: "We can't shake his story...
According to his Marine lawyer, Bracy's interrogation and his eventual confession were shams. The lawyer, Lieut. Colonel Michael Powell, says NIS investigators have admitted altering their assessments of portions of Bracy's polygraph results from "nondeceptive" to "deceptive." (The Marine brass say the changes were merely "administrative.") Powell, an eleven-year corps veteran, insists that Bracy was ordered to sign an inaccurate summary of his statement without being allowed to read it. But when one of his interrogators then jumped up and shouted, "We've got ourselves another spy!" Bracy immediately denied saying anything of the kind. He also...
...week was having difficulty preparing cases against Sergeant Clayton Lonetree and Corporal Arnold Bracy, the two Marines whose confessions triggered the scandal. The embassy guards have apparently repudiated or contradicted key sections of their initial statements, and much of the investigators' case against them rests on hearsay evidence and polygraph tests...