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Dueling Polygraphs in Pittsburgh Beating Case

Three Pittsburgh police officers who stand accused of wantonly beating 18-year-old honor student Jordan Miles have all passed lie detector tests. But Miles also passed a lie detector test regarding the incident. So whose lie detector is lying? Jill King Greenwood reports for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Three Pittsburgh police officers accused of beating a Homewood …

“Polygraph Examiners Back the Value of Their Tests”

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff writer Michael A. Fuoco reports. Excerpt: To tell the truth, polygraph examiners for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County police didn’t blink an eye last week when a National Research Council study found that lie detector tests administered annually to tens of thousands of federal employees hadn’t uncovered a single spy. But the local …