{"id":3488,"date":"2002-04-09T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2002-04-09T20:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2021-02-22T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:25:36","slug":"brothers-polygraph-test-could-clear-brother-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/09\/brothers-polygraph-test-could-clear-brother-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Brother&#8217;s Polygraph Test Could Clear Brother in Prison&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020503220734\/http:\/\/www.amarillonet.com\/stories\/040902\/tex_testcould.shtml\">reports<\/a> in this article published in the <em>Amarillo Globe-News.<\/em> Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>DALLAS (AP) &#8211; This is a story about two brothers and a crime that changed their lives.<\/p><p>One brother is serving a 30-year sentence for aggravated robbery. The other is living with the agonizing guilt that he put his younger half brother behind bars.<\/p><p>Today, they both hope the truth will set them free.<\/p><p>For almost five years, James Byrd and his family have tried to convince authorities of his innocence &#8211; and that the man who committed the crime was his brother, Donnie Johnson.<\/p><p>After years of nagging from his family, Johnson, 43, confessed publicly and took a polygraph test last month about his guilt. Now the Tarrant County district attorney wants to test Byrd today.<\/p><p>If 38-year-old Byrd passes the lie detector test, the district attorney has agreed to recommend a pardon to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. The board could act immediately or wait several months.<\/p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very unusual case because of the relationship between the person who committed the crime and the person wrongly incarcerated,&#8221; Assistant District Attorney Alan Levy said. &#8220;I think it merits a second look when normally we wouldn&#8217;t have looked at it again. We&#8217;re going to do what we need to do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mr. Levy, basing a pardon recommendation on a pseudoscientific polygraph &#8220;test&#8221; is hardly doing what needs to be done.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports in this article published in the Amarillo Globe-News. Excerpt: DALLAS (AP) &#8211; This is a story about two brothers and a crime that changed their lives. One brother is serving a 30-year sentence for aggravated robbery. The other is living with the agonizing guilt that he put his younger half brother &#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":[320],"class_list":{"0":"post-3488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-texas","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","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=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}