“Why Prosecutors Pass Up Polygraphs: Attorneys Say Tests Are Unreliable, Used as a Tool Touted to Media”
Mary Flood reports for the Houston Chronicle, providing details of indicted ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s polygraph “test”: Jeff Skilling’s lawyers proudly told a mass of media Thursday morning that the ex-CEO had passed a lie detector test but prosecutors indicted him anyway. Lawyers Bruce Hiler and Daniel Petrocelli later said they even told prosecutors the …