{"id":3683,"date":"2002-08-17T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2002-08-17T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2021-02-28T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T16:34:33","slug":"polygraph-misuse-complicates-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/17\/polygraph-misuse-complicates-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Polygraph Misuse Complicates Hearing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Associated Press writer Catherine Wilson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-sun.com\/tools\/printfriendly.cfm?StoryID=258384\">reports<\/a>. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>MIAMI (AP) &#8212; A polygraph examiner has admitted he broke the rules of his profession during a February undercover investigation into the 1990 murder of a policeman.<\/p><p>Broward County sheriff&#8217;s polygrapher Richard Hoffman testified he was ordered to perform the lie detector test as a ruse, didn&#8217;t ask required control questions and wrote a misleading report on test subject Andrew Johnson. The report showed Johnson was being deceptive when he said he never shot a deputy.<\/p><p>Johnson had emerged as a suspect in the Nov. 13, 1990, slaying of Deputy Patrick Behan &#8212; a murder for which a 26-year-old retarded man is serving a life term in prison.<\/p><p>Testifying on the final day of hearing seeking a new hearing for convicted killer Timothy Brown, Hoffman admitted last week that he violated the standards of the Florida Polygraph Association.<\/p><p>&#8220;This test should not ever have been run,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The test is worthless. The report is worthless.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that Florida Polygraph Association member Richard Hoffman rigged a polygraph &#8220;test&#8221; speaks to the true level of his faith in polygraphy.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press writer Catherine Wilson reports. Excerpt: MIAMI (AP) &#8212; A polygraph examiner has admitted he broke the rules of his profession during a February undercover investigation into the 1990 murder of a policeman. Broward County sheriff&#8217;s polygrapher Richard Hoffman testified he was ordered to perform the lie detector test as a ruse, didn&#8217;t ask &#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":[380],"class_list":{"0":"post-3683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-florida","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","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=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}