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Twoblock, JP and Donna Taylor,
Thank you for the props, people.
For an obvious reason, I will address my response to the entire board.
Yes, you all only have my word that things happened the way I say they did. Short of having a mini-trial in person, how am I supposed to give you something else?
However, I have no motivation to lie to any of you. Does anyone believe that I would sit here and type this just to type it? I may not have much of a life, but I do have one.
And I do have a right to my opinion as to why I got convicted. I never meant anyone to believe that the polygraph results were the only reason I was convicted, but I am certain as I can be that the polygraph played some role, when it should not have played any role. I can say with a straight face that as my polygraph results were in my pre-sentence report, then someone down at the Courthouse, other than the Prosecutor, had to have known them. Proof of that failure was enclosed with the report. I am holding it in my hands right now.
Some people keep backhanding me by saying I have to offer PROOF of my allegations. Hmmm, in this arena, I do not know how to do that.
Should I snail mail everyone a copy of the police reports, the trial transcript, the briefs for my appeal and let you decide? Hmm, if I could afford it, I might.
Also, for a reason that I cannot and do not wish to go into here, there was something else going on with my family at the time that was and is still very painful for me to discuss. I do not wish to expose it because I have seen how some people will use what I said as yet another knife to carve me up and I cannot handle it emotionally.
However, in order to avoid being overly cryptic (which some will also use to their advantage) I will throw you all a bone so that you can stop thinking about my motivations.
Type Jardine death at ASU into Google. The articles you will find there is about my brother, John, who died at Arizona State University in 1999. The litigation that followed took 6 years. My parents settled with the University but they lost their suit against the City of Tempe in late 2005; long after my conviction and exactly, almost to the day, the Appellate Court refused my appeal.
During all of that time, I learned much about the legal system, much I found disturbing and unfair; to both sides of an issue, I might add. I received quite an education on qualified Immunity and just how hard it sue to sue city hall. If it were as simple as some believe, everyone would be doing it.
I also found out how far some people are willing to go to protect themselves and their secure jobs.
Few here can truly appreciate the depths that some people will go to deny culpability for what they did.
It was against this backdrop that I met Det. Lyman, a campus police officer. It was against all my physical health problems, my depression and my concerns for what my family was going through (and had yet to go through) when I met Det. Lyman in January, 2003.
I am begging you all, have some respect, please, do not try to engage me about the law suit or its consequence for my family. I do not wish to talk about it in detail. I have wrote what I wrote simply because I want others to appreciate where I was at in my head and heart then and why I found it so hard to trust anyone, especially a campus police officer.
By the way, my family paid for the trial lawyer, the state paid for the appellate one.
To other readers, and not in direct response to Sancho:
I never said the polygrapher had to manipulate the results. One can only make that particular assumption if the pseudo-science of polygraphy can really separate Truth from Deception; which it cannot do.
Perhaps I actually did "fail it," does that, in and of itself, mean I stole anything? With an error rate of 10%-15%, I would hardly call that conclusive. Did I say anywhere in my post, that the examiner himself shared the results with anyone other than the prosecutor?
Still no mention of the first polygraph I took over this matter, which I passed. Does that mean I did not steal it? I guess only Deceptive results count in some worlds.
Like I said, polygraphy, is a subjective load of crap increasingly being fed to a more unsafe and scared society as one of the only tools that can protect people from the potential wolves in their midst.
One of the things that bothers me the most and should bother everyone, pro and con alike is the dramatic resurgence of any technology from 9/11 to today. We should do all we can to avoid becomong too dependent on anything; especially something that, if one believes it is a science, has an error rate of 10%-15%.
Obliviously, some people do not know where I am from, really. This place is not a bastion of liberal democracy, but an ultra-conservative and monied mini-bible belt. Believe me, they know how to "get things done" around here, if they feel the need.
Case-in-point: a local substitute teacher was acused of fondling an 11 year-old female student. He was pulled from class, escorted off the grounds and was later arrested for his alleged crime. Apparently, this girl's mother is a corrections officer at the local State Prison. In order to avoid any "conflict of interest" the county prosecutor recused his office from prosecuting the guy. Where to get another prosecutor? Hmmmm, lets go to the county south of here (where I was convicted, BTW) and get one. Okay. Fine. However, the Superintendant of the School District where this alleged assault happened is the BROTHER of the the prosecutor they imported. No possible conflict of interest there, huh? Do not tell me about where I live, I have seen and heard things.....
Lucky for that poor bastard that they jury was out 40 minutes and returned a verdict of not guilty. However, that guy's teaching life is over now. He will never be hired again, not here. No way. Is that fair?
A small fry felony that could carry four years in prison...not so small fry, huh?
As I stated before, people would be amazed at the lengths they would go to to avoid culpability.
Again, can we get back to the original question, which was why would a polygrapher care if a subject passed or failed?
BTW, the Legos in my toy box are missing some pieces and it is only a real house of cards if you have been given the FULL DECK; which no one here has. To provde every facet would take way too much effort and I am tired.
And one last thing about my case....I feel I have to repeat myself over and over agian because someone here just is NOT getting it:
For the last time, I do not really care if you think me guilty or not. I only wrote what I did to share MY EXPERIENCE with polygraphs and to say, based upon that experience and what I have read here concerning the experiences of others, that it really IS a psuedo-science, with little or no basis in fact.
It does not matter to me what anyone thinks, really. I know I did not do anything to deserve this and no amount of invective or personal attack is going to change that.
Can we now forget about my case? I would so love to do so....
Again, thank you TWOBLOCK, JP and Donna
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