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Cincinnati Post<\/em> staff writer Kimball Perry writes<\/a> in part:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A polygraph test that failed to detect the lies of convicted murderer Denise Lipscomb may kill attempts to routinely use the tests in Hamilton County courts.<\/p>

In documents unsealed Friday at the request of The Post, Ms. Lipscomb’s attorneys, in preparing her defense, noted she passed a polygraph test in which she denied shooting Silverton cab driver John Arcady to death last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Post staff writer Kimball Perry writes in part: A polygraph test that failed to detect the lies of convicted murderer Denise Lipscomb may kill attempts to routinely use the tests in Hamilton County courts. 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