{"id":2857,"date":"2001-01-29T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2001-01-30T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T19:02:02","slug":"mention-of-polygraph-prompts-mistrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/01\/29\/mention-of-polygraph-prompts-mistrial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mention of &#8220;Polygraph&#8221; Prompts Mistrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Patrick E. Gauen of the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/newspage\/142042143\/\">writes<\/a> on the case of Rodney Woidtke, who was being retried for murder in Bellevue, Illinois:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Polygraph, or lie-detector, tests are not admissible in Illinois courts, and case law suggests that mere mention of the word can be considered poison to a jury&#8217;s fairness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick E. Gauen of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes on the case of Rodney Woidtke, who was being retried for murder in Bellevue, Illinois: Polygraph, or lie-detector, tests are not admissible in Illinois courts, and case law suggests that mere mention of the word can be considered poison to a jury&#8217;s fairness.<\/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-2857","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\/2857","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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}