{"id":1457,"date":"2015-05-15T14:21:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T19:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2015-05-18T00:52:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T05:52:01","slug":"u-s-v-doug-williams-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/u-s-v-doug-williams-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. v. Doug Williams Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AntiPolygraph.org has followed the case of U.S. v. Doug Williams<\/a><\/em> with interest, from the raid on his office and home<\/a> on 21 February 2013, to the indictment<\/a> handed down on 13 November 2014, to the trial held 12-13 May 2015 (see our on-location reporting on day one<\/a> and day two<\/a> of the proceedings). On the second day of the trial, Williams changed his plea<\/a> from not guilty to guilty with respect to all counts. There was no plea agreement with prosecutors. Later on the evening of 13 May, the content of Williams’ website, Polygraph.com, was removed from the Internet, and a WHOIS search suggests that the site is no longer registered in his name<\/del>. Williams’ Twitter account, @PolygraphCom<\/a>, was deleted the same evening. To date, Williams has not spoken publicly about why he changed his plea.<\/p>\n

Just prior to the trial, the Guardian published a noteworthy article<\/a> by Jessica Glenza about the case. After Williams’ guilty plea, the Department of Justice issued a press release<\/a> that formed the basis for much of the national reporting on the case.<\/p>\n

Ars Technica published a story<\/a> by David Kravets that engendered a good many thoughtful comments, and Slashdot also posted the news<\/a>, along with numerous comments. See also the relevant discussion thread<\/a> on the AntiPolygraph.org message board, which covers the period from the indictment through the trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AntiPolygraph.org has followed the case of U.S. v. Doug Williams with interest, from the raid on his office and home on 21 February 2013, to the indictment handed down on 13 November 2014, to the trial held 12-13 May 2015 (see our on-location reporting on day one and day two of the proceedings). On the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[197,170],"class_list":{"0":"post-1457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-doug-williams","8":"tag-operation-lie-busters","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}