{"id":3906,"date":"2003-04-05T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2003-04-05T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2021-03-08T03:53:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:53:38","slug":"dna-clears-ex-soldier-who-failed-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/05\/dna-clears-ex-soldier-who-failed-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA Clears Ex-Soldier Who Failed Polygraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030628000658\/http:\/\/www.ljworld.com\/section\/stateregional\/story\/127472\">&#8220;DNA testing clears name of Kansan in rape case,&#8221;<\/a> the Associated Press reports on the case of Eddie James Lowery, who falsely confessed to rape after failing a polygraph &#8220;test.&#8221; As a result of the polygraph-induced false confession, Lowery, a soldier then stationed at Ft. Riley, Kansas, spent ten years in prison and received a dishonorable discharge. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Lowery was linked to the rape when he was involved in a traffic wreck in Ogden. Police questioned Lowery, then a soldier stationed at Fort Riley, because they knew he had been in the area. He denied any connection.<\/p><p>Lowery agreed to take a polygraph test. Police told him he failed. Hours of police interrogation followed. Desperate to get out of the situation, Lowery confessed.<\/p><p>&#8220;They broke me down,&#8221; he said Thursday. &#8220;I told them what they wanted to hear.&#8221;<\/p><p>Jurors found him guilty and sentenced him to 11 years to life in prison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Polygraph &#8220;testing&#8221; is a pseudoscientific fraud used by police as a pretext for interrogating a suspect in the absence of legal counsel. Anyone asked to submit to a polygraph &#8220;test&#8221; in connection with a crime should refuse and seek competent legal advice.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article titled, &#8220;DNA testing clears name of Kansan in rape case,&#8221; the Associated Press reports on the case of Eddie James Lowery, who falsely confessed to rape after failing a polygraph &#8220;test.&#8221; As a result of the polygraph-induced false confession, Lowery, a soldier then stationed at Ft. Riley, Kansas, spent ten years in &#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":[467,321,191,199],"class_list":{"0":"post-3906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-eddie-james-lowery","8":"tag-false-confession","9":"tag-interrogation","10":"tag-kansas","11":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","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=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}