{"id":2043,"date":"2019-05-26T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T12:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2019-05-31T00:53:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T05:53:53","slug":"polygraph-critic-doug-williams-to-testify-in-new-mexico-criminal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/26\/polygraph-critic-doug-williams-to-testify-in-new-mexico-criminal-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygraph Critic Doug Williams to Testify in New Mexico Criminal Case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doug Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Longtime polygraph critic Doug Williams<\/a>, himself a former police polygraph operator, is scheduled to testify as an expert witness against the admissibility of polygraph evidence in a New Mexico court hearing scheduled for 30 May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Alan Vaughn Emamdee<\/a> of Farmington, New Mexico faces an 11-count indictment for alleged sexual abuse of patients and seeks the introduction of polygraph “test” results as exculpatory evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams, who has been subpoenaed to testify by prosecutor Michael P. Sanchez of New Mexico’s 11th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, can explain how anyone, innocent or guilty, can pass or beat a polygraph “test” using simple, effective techniques that he has been teaching since 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal polygraph operators so feared Doug Williams’ teachings that in 2012 they targeted him with an undercover entrapment operation dubbed “Operation Lie Busters,”<\/a> which culminated in his serving a two-year prison sentence. Williams was released from federal prison<\/a> in July 2017 but remains under a three-year period of supervised release with a condition that he not engage “in any form of polygraph-related activity.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Department of Justice objected to Williams’ being permitted to testify for the prosecution in the New Mexico case, but United States District Judge Robin J. Cauthron nonetheless ordered<\/a> the modification of Williams’ conditions of supervised release to permit him to “comply with the subpoena and testify in the New Mexico proceeding.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hearing in which Williams is to testify commences on Thursday, 30 May 2019 at 08:30 AM with judge Lyndy D. Bennett presiding. The case is State of New Mexico vs. Alan Emamdee<\/em>, docket number D-1116-CR-201701042.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update:<\/strong> On 29 May 2019, the defense rested in State of New Mexico vs. Alan Emamdee<\/em> without introducing any polygraph evidence. As a result, Doug Williams was not called on to testify. Joshua Kellogg reports<\/a> on what transpired in the courtroom for the Farmington Daily Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update 2:<\/strong> On 30 May 2019, a jury acquitted<\/a> Dr. Emamdee on all 11 counts.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Longtime polygraph critic Doug Williams, himself a former police polygraph operator, is scheduled to testify as an expert witness against the admissibility of polygraph evidence in a New Mexico court hearing scheduled for 30 May 2019. Dr. Alan Vaughn Emamdee of Farmington, New Mexico faces an 11-count indictment for alleged sexual abuse of patients and …<\/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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","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=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}