{"id":4255,"date":"2004-12-16T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2021-03-22T13:13:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T18:13:27","slug":"marion-jones-sues-balco-founder-challenges-him-to-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/16\/marion-jones-sues-balco-founder-challenges-him-to-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"“Marion Jones Sues BALCO Founder, Challenges Him to Polygraph”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Associated Press legal affairs writer David Kravets reports<\/a> in this article published by the San Francisco Chronicle.<\/em> Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olympic track star Marion Jones has filed a defamation lawsuit against Victor Conte and challenged the BALCO head to take a lie detector test regarding his accusations that she used performance-enhancing drugs.<\/p>

Jones is seeking $25 million in the suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, alleging Conte tarnished her reputation when he made the statement broadcast Dec. 3 on ABC’s “20\/20.”<\/p>

Conte and three others connected to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative were indicted in February by a federal grand jury for a variety of alleged offenses, including illegally distributing steroids.<\/p>

The suit said Jones passed a lie detector test and includes a statement from her doctor saying she never used steroids. Jones won three gold medals and two bronzes during the 2000 Olympics.<\/p>

Conte’s statements, the suit said, “are false and malicious.”<\/p>

In an e-mail to The Associated Press, Conte said the lawsuit was “nothing more than a PR stunt by a desperate woman, who has regularly used drugs throughout her career. I look forward with all confidence to the court proceedings as I stand by everything I said on the ’20\/20′ special.”<\/p>

Jones’ attorneys offered Thursday to pay for Conte to take a lie-detector test and wants three questions asked of him:<\/p>

* Did he observe Jones injecting herself with performance enhancing drugs on April 21, 2001, as he stated on national television?<\/p>

* Has he ever leaked any grand jury testimony or other evidence related to the BALCO investigation?<\/p>

* Has he ever observed Marion Jones illegally taking any performance-enhancing drugs?<\/p>

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A former FBI polygraph examiner said he tested Jones on June 16 about whether she ever used performance-enhancing drugs or was lying about “any personal use of performance-enhancing drugs.”<\/p>

“It is my opinion that these responses are not indicative of deception,” former agent Ronald Homer wrote in the lawsuit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Associated Press legal affairs writer David Kravets reports in this article published by the San Francisco Chronicle. Excerpt: Olympic track star Marion Jones has filed a defamation lawsuit against Victor Conte and challenged the BALCO head to take a lie detector test regarding his accusations that she used performance-enhancing drugs. Jones is seeking $25 million …<\/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":[461,514,515,330],"class_list":{"0":"post-4255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-litigation","8":"tag-marion-jones","9":"tag-ronald-homer","10":"tag-sports","11":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255","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=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}