{"id":4076,"date":"2003-11-05T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T20:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2021-03-13T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T18:01:54","slug":"illinois-man-innocent-of-armed-robbery-failed-lie-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/illinois-man-innocent-of-armed-robbery-failed-lie-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Man, Innocent of Armed Robbery, Failed Lie Detector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p><em>Daily Herald<\/em> Legal Affairs Writer Christy Gutowski reports on the case of Kevin Liszka in an article titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/news_story.asp?intid=37930339\">&#8220;&#8216;The perfect mark.'&#8221;<\/a> Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As Kevin Liszka sat in a police department holding cell for three days, he remained confident authorities would realize they had the wrong man.<\/p><p>Instead, police hauled Liszka off to the DuPage County jail on the fourth day after a trail of evidence, including witness identification, led back to him.<\/p><p>&#8220;I just started crying,&#8221; the Bolingbrook man said. &#8220;I said, &#8216;You&#8217;re all wrong. You guys are making a big mistake.'&#8221;<\/p><p>Police said Liszka was one of three assailants who burglarized a city official&#8217;s residence in Warrenville in a violent home invasion that involved rape. The crime shook the close-knit community to its core.<\/p><p>From the onset, the 20-year-old man proclaimed his innocence. Forty-two days later, prosecutors confirmed he had been telling the truth. They cleared Liszka after charging the final of three suspects.<\/p><p>The case is just one example of the fallibility of the criminal justice system &#8212; a system in which innocent people are sometimes caught in the middle. It also is the reason eyewitness testimony, long a trusted fixture in the courtroom, has come under increasing attack.<\/p><p>Liszka, though, had a lot more than mistaken identity working against him. A pizza delivery, police sketch, failed lie-detector test and a shaky reputation with police also played a role.<\/p><p>&#8230;<\/p><p>Liszka said he understands why innocent people confess. The interrogations, at times, grew heated. At one point, authorities warned they were giving him one last chance to come clean.<\/p><p>&#8220;They told me if there&#8217;s no deal now, there will never be one,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At that point, considering I was facing 40 years in prison, I was almost thinking about admitting to something I didn&#8217;t do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Herald Legal Affairs Writer Christy Gutowski reports on the case of Kevin Liszka in an article titled, &#8220;&#8216;The perfect mark.&#8217;&#8221; Excerpt: As Kevin Liszka sat in a police department holding cell for three days, he remained confident authorities would realize they had the wrong man. Instead, police hauled Liszka off to the DuPage County &#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":[365,191],"class_list":{"0":"post-4076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-illinois","8":"tag-interrogation","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","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=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}