Reminds me of the movie with Al Pacino "Scent of a Woman".
OO-RAH!  OO-RAH!

Good luck!

TC

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How did you respond?  Did you tell him what you thought about their little contraption?

Sounds like he was determined to fail you no matter what.   You are under no obligation to sit there and take any abuse.  I would answer any given line of questioning once and only once.  As for telling you the school was  going to start criminal proceedings, you could have used that as an excuse to stop cooperating with him by saying anything further since criminal proceedings were pending.  Just ask if he needed to run anymore charts, otherwise just tell him you have nothing else to say.  If the school asked, tell them he said you were going to initiate criminal proceedings, and didn't think it prudent to say anything more.

He was gonna fail you anyway.  Might as well have called him on everything he said or claimed.  Twist his words around for a change.

Good luck with whatever civil action you take.  Maybe you find a good laywer  from this website.

TC

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Read the quote at the bottom of my posts by Dr. Phil Zimbardo who was Chairman of the Psychology Dept. at Standford University.

Increased "Fight, flight, freeze" reactions as measure by the polygraph do NOT equate unequivocally to 'deception'.   So you could have told him that.  If he is focusing on one question and falsely accusing you of lying, then your mind could easily label that question as a "bogey" question and your subconscious will produce a defensive or "fight" response.  Has nothing directly to do with lying or holding back information.   Just that your brain is being "defensive" about that question, because it is THAT question he is calling you a liar on, when you are being truthful.  Don't you think that is enough to make a truthfull person react?

You actually have three brains.  The "cortex" (seat of concsious thought), which influences  the "lymbic system" (seat of emotions) which sends signals to the "brain stem", which unconsciously controls your heart rate, sweat glands, adrenal gland...etc.

Anyway, sounds like you got the hang of it.  Sometimes it's best to just call a polygrapher "out" .  After all, he was lying to you.  Don't just take what he say's as gospel.   Make him back up his claims and hopefully catch him in a lie!  They you have grounds for just saying, "hey, you're bull shitting me here.  I am trying to be honest, but I'm starting to see this for the sham it is!".

Of course that will piss off most polygraph operators, but like I said, looked like he was going to fail you anyway.

I did not knowingly do it, no. I had seen her take drinks in front of me by serveral things that happened over the course of that night that led me to believe that she was very coherent and knew what was going on. I contacted her the next day and she said she did not know what happened. That is what i have been saying from day one. I signed a paper that said I violated the sexual assault policy at school because I wanted to get things behind me, and if I didnt, I didnt know if worse consequences would come. I was a little hamstrung but I wanted to avoid going to a 'trial' type phase through the schools judiciary board, where worse stipulations could have been imposed.

The one question I failed was whether or not I had knowingly touched a woman inappropiately when they were incappacitated or passed out. That I have never done! I did have sex with this woman, she was apparently too drunk to remember anything...I now have no way to prove my innocence about that because these people are dead set on polygraphs. The therapist did say tho that he thinks I need a limited amount of counceling compared to the felons he works with, which is what the school wanted in the first place. But he doesnt think I should be interrupted from school. Now, the school admins have to choose which course of action to take.

Mark Johnson

I don't think anyone has told you that you can't legally be judged guilty or innocent solely by a ploygraph. If your education is interupted by the polygrapher and his machine and the school,  then my strong suggestion is that you sue both.

One more thing twoblock...the counselor and polygrapher have told me I can be judged accordingly. They said it usually doesnt happen because the defense and the DA have to agree to do it on both sides. However, the defense usually doesnt agree to it and thus it is not allowable because both dont agree to it. I told him that makes me feel wary of the justice system because polygraphs arent 100%. It doesnt make sense. That sounds like BS to me. If the defense doesnt want a bloody knife in evidence can they not agree to it??? If courts truly recognized polygraphs there would be no need for lawyers to argue innocence of guilt. Are they blatantly lying to me??? The counselor said.."I am not making this up."

If this is true, and i brought up a civil suit, could the polygraph then be entered into evidence of a criminal suit against me because that evidence has already been enetered into a court of law??