A Colorado football player submits to polygraph in gang rape investigation. The Associated Press discusses the use of scientific (DNA) and nonscientific (polygraph) investigative techniques in a report provided on ESPN.com. Excerpt:
Campus police have asked some Colorado football players to provide DNA samples as investigators look into a student’s claim she was gang raped at a party for recruits. . .
Only one football player with significant playing time on the nation’s No. 3-ranked team has been mentioned in connection with the accusations, Barnett said in a statement released by the athletic department Saturday. The coach did not identify the player and said he voluntarily took a lie detector test.
“The results indicate that the student-athlete was not complicit in this alleged activity,” Barnett said.
Results of pseudoscientific polygraph “tests” should never be relied upon by police when determining whether to include or exclude an individual as a suspect in a criminal investigation.