{"id":3025,"date":"2001-06-26T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2001-06-26T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2021-02-19T08:47:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T13:47:28","slug":"polygraph-may-determine-mans-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/06\/26\/polygraph-may-determine-mans-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Polygraph May Determine Man&#8217;s Sentence&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p><em>Madison Press<\/em> staff writer Steve Smith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison-press.com\/NF\/omf\/madison\/news_story.html?[rkey=0010084+[cr=gdn\">reports<\/a>. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>LONDON &#8212; A young man facing up to eight years in prison will have an opportunity to avoid that sentence if a polygraph examination shows he is telling the truth about his involvement in the theft of a crossbow from a West Jefferson garage.<\/p><p>Beau A. Stephenson, 18, of 707 W. Main St., West Jefferson, was indicted on a second degree felony charge of burglary. The theft occurred in March and West Jefferson police were contacted in April after the bow was sold to another West Jefferson man for $50. Police Lt. Rodney Chenos contacted experts and discovered that the bow, which was returned to police on April 9, was worth $632.<\/p><p>Stephenson claims that although he sold the crossbow, he did not enter the garage and steal it, Assistant Prosecutor Eamon Costello said during a hearing Monday in Madison County Common Pleas Court.<\/p><p>Costello said Stephenson was offered a chance to take a polygraph exam and he agreed. Costello asked Judge Robert D. Nichols to postpone Stephenson&#8217;s trial until after an Aug. 2 examination at the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation.<\/p><p>&#8220;If Mr. Stephenson passes the polygraph, it is our intention to offer him a fifth degree felony &#8212; receiving stolen property&#8221; in a plea bargain, Costello said. That charge would carry a penalty of 12 months in prison. If he fails the state will continue to pursue the second degree felony.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors should not make decisions on what charges to bring against a defendant based on the outcome of pseudoscientific polygraph &#8220;tests.&#8221; It is fair neither to the suspect nor to the victim.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison Press staff writer Steve Smith reports. Excerpt: LONDON &#8212; A young man facing up to eight years in prison will have an opportunity to avoid that sentence if a polygraph examination shows he is telling the truth about his involvement in the theft of a crossbow from a West Jefferson garage. Beau A. Stephenson, &#8230;<\/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":[337],"class_list":{"0":"post-3025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-wisconsin","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025","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=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}