{"id":4094,"date":"2003-12-03T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2021-03-13T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T18:01:54","slug":"west-australia-court-of-criminal-appeal-rejects-polygraph-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/03\/west-australia-court-of-criminal-appeal-rejects-polygraph-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"West Australia Court of Criminal Appeal Rejects Polygraph &#8220;Evidence&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>The Australian Associated Press reports in an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4057,8053609%255E1702,00.html\">&#8220;Mallard to stay behind bars&#8221;<\/a> that the West Australia Court of Criminal Appeal, upholding Andrew Mark Mallard&#8217;s conviction for the murder of Perth jeweler Pamela Lawrence, has ruled polygraph &#8220;evidence&#8221; to be inadmissible. The WA Court of Criminal Appeal is the highest Australian court that has ruled on the admissibility of polygraph results. The court&#8217;s ruling may be downloaded as a 340 kb PDF file <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/litigation\/mallard\/mallard-v-the-queen.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Associated Press reports in an article titled &#8220;Mallard to stay behind bars&#8221; that the West Australia Court of Criminal Appeal, upholding Andrew Mark Mallard&#8217;s conviction for the murder of Perth jeweler Pamela Lawrence, has ruled polygraph &#8220;evidence&#8221; to be inadmissible. The WA Court of Criminal Appeal is the highest Australian court that has &#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":[95,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-4094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-admissibility","8":"tag-australia","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","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=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}