Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Jeannette Andrade reports for the Manila Times regarding the use of polygraphy in the Philippines in a high-profile terrorism case. Excerpt: The man caught on video beheading Abu Sayyaf captives will go through a lie-detector test and psychiatric evaluation to determine if he qualifies as a state witness to pin down other executioners. Jun Peñaflor, …
Nichole Monroe Bell reports for the Charlottesville Observer regarding a capital murder trial in South Carolina. Excerpt: YORK – The judge handling the capital murder retrial of Sterling Spann is considering a motion to admit the results of two lie-detector tests that defense attorneys argue show their client is innocent. According to documents filed in …
Annette Phillips reports for the Kingston Whig-Standard of Kingston, Ontario, Canada regarding a polygraph dragnet at City Hall. Excerpt: Local News – Councillor Don Rogers says he will not take a lie-detector test to help police trace the leak of a confidential council document. “I find the idea of being subjected to a lie-detector test …
Mark McDonald reports for the Philadelphia Daily News. Excerpt: AFTER AN inconclusive result on his first lie-detector test of the day, City Councilman Frank DiCicco late last night passed a second test, giving weight to his allegation that colleague Rick Mariano made an ethnic slur against Irish-Americans. Mariano, refusing to submit to a polygraph himself, …
WPVI.com provides an Associated Press report on Philadelphia Councilman Frank DiCicco’s polygraph examination as well as a RealPlayer video file with reporter Dann Cuellar’s news story. Excerpt from the Associated Press report: PHILADELPHIA – February 19, 2002 – Maybe Frank DiCicco should start raising campaign funds on ABC’s “The Chair.” DiCicco, a Philadelphia councilman, seems …
Tony Romeo reports for KYW news radio. This short article from the KYW website is cited here in full: Results are inconclusive following a lie detector test administered to a Philadelphia city councilman who accused another councilman of an ethnic slur The spat between First District councilman Frank DiCicco and Seventh District councilman Richard Mariano …
Mark McDonald reports for the Philadelphia Daily News. Excerpt: DID CITY Councilman Rick Mariano refer to residents of Irish descent in the 31st Ward in Kensington as “trailer-park Irish trash?” Councilman Frank DiCicco is so sure of it, he’s taking a Daily News-sponsored lie-detector test today to prove it. DiCicco says Mariano made the remark …
Chicago Tribune national correspondent Evan Osnos reports on the pre-trial testimony of Osama Awadallah, who faces federal perjury charges. Excerpt: Awadallah, a permanent U.S. resident whose trial is set to begin May 20, testified that the government’s intimidation began with his earliest conversations with the FBI on Sept. 20, when, he said, 15 to 20 …
William R. Gorta reports for the New York Post. Excerpt: February 19, 2002 — A Jordanian charged with lying to a grand jury recited to a federal judge a list of alleged law-enforcement abuses at his pre-trial evidence-suppression hearing yesterday. Osama Awadallah, 21, said he was physically abused by jail guards, denied access to a …
Associated Press correspondent Larry Neumeister reports on Osama Awadallah’s courtroom testimony. Excerpt: NEW YORK (AP) – A Jordanian student testified Monday that FBI agents accused him of being one of the Sept. 11 terrorists after saying he failed a lie detector test. Osama Awadallah, 21, said agents told him he would be freed but after …