{"id":61,"date":"2006-08-18T23:28:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T03:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2021-02-11T07:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T12:32:20","slug":"grand-rapids-woman-who-failed-polygraph-vindicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/18\/grand-rapids-woman-who-failed-polygraph-vindicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Who Failed Michigan State Police Polygraph Vindicated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Grand Rapids Press<\/em><\/a> and the Detroit Free Press<\/em><\/a> report that Lisa Hansen of Grand Rapids, Michigan, failed a polygraph “test” administered by a Michigan State Police sergeant on 22 December 2005. Hansen, a receptionist at a local Panopoulos Salon<\/a>, stood accused of stealing some $425 in cash and checks, which she maintained she had placed in a deposit slot at her employer’s bank. The Free Press<\/em> reports that Hansen’s lawyer, Gerald R. Stahl, “questioned the lie-detector test, saying the polygraph operator badgered her before accusing her of lying.” Hansen told 24 Hour News 8<\/a> of Grand Rapids, “I was amazed that I didn’t pass. Completely amazed.”<\/p>\n

Following the false positive, Hansen was criminally charged and persuaded by her earlier, court-appointed attorney to plead guilty to a misdemeanor embezzlement charge. A judge rejected the plea and instead ordered her to perform 40 hours of community service.<\/p>\n

But now, Hansen has been completely exonerated, and the Michigan State Police’s polygraph operator proven to have been completely wrong: on 9 August 2006, a bank employee found the missing money “stuck in a chute” at the night depository where Hansen maintained all along that she had placed the money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Grand Rapids Press and the Detroit Free Press report that Lisa Hansen of Grand Rapids, Michigan, failed a polygraph “test” administered by a Michigan State Police sergeant on 22 December 2005. Hansen, a receptionist at a local Panopoulos Salon, stood accused of stealing some $425 in cash and checks, which she maintained she had …<\/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":[284],"class_list":{"0":"post-61","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-benjamin-escalante","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}