{"id":4020,"date":"2003-08-12T15:30:58","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T20:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2021-03-10T03:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T08:22:48","slug":"workmans-lawyers-release-lie-detector-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/12\/workmans-lawyers-release-lie-detector-test\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Workman&#8217;s Lawyers Release Lie Detector Test&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Chris Bundgaard <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040228204523\/http:\/\/www.wkrn.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=1399249&amp;nav=1ugFHQWS\">reports<\/a> for WKRN-TV News 2. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Philip Workman faces execution in September for the 1981 shooting death of a Memphis police officer. On Tuesday, attorneys asked Governor Phil Bredesen to spare the inmate&#8217;s life, saying a lie detector test supports their claims that an eyewitness lied.<\/p><p>For years, lawyers for Workman have contended that Harold Davis perjured himself at the original trial of their client. They&#8217;ve said that Davis backed off testimony that he saw Workman shoot police officer Ronnie Oliver to death outside a Memphis Wendy&#8217;s in 1981.<\/p><p>Attorney Jefferson Dorsey said, &#8220;Short of time travel, I cannot think of a more powerful way to show that Harold Davis was not there and that he lied at trial&#8221;<\/p><p>Monday morning, as they released a clemency petition filed with Gov. Bredesen, Workman&#8217;s lawyers showed a new picture of Davis as he recently underwent a polygraph administered by Kenneth Vardell &#8211; a former career FBI agent touted by the lawyers to be well-respected in the field. &#8220;He says absolutely that Harold Davis was telling the truth when he did not see Philip Workman shoot Lt. Oliver,&#8221; said Dorsey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bundgaard reports for WKRN-TV News 2. Excerpt: Philip Workman faces execution in September for the 1981 shooting death of a Memphis police officer. On Tuesday, attorneys asked Governor Phil Bredesen to spare the inmate&#8217;s life, saying a lie detector test supports their claims that an eyewitness lied. For years, lawyers for Workman have contended &#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":[348],"class_list":{"0":"post-4020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-tennessee","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020","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=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}