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Sep 21st, 2011 at 6:43pm
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"Earlier, defense lawyer Stephen Marsh told The Associated Press that the Georgia Department of Corrections denied his request to allow Davis to take a polygraph test. Marsh had said he hoped the polygraph would persuade the state pardons board to reconsider a decision against clemency." 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44592285/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/#.TnovYpZA6Ac

What if you were innocent and the results came back negative? But if you "pass" it seems there are those who won't believe you anyway.
  
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Reply #1 - Sep 21st, 2011 at 6:55pm
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Mr. Truth wrote on Sep 21st, 2011 at 6:43pm:
What if you were innocent and the results came back negative? But if you "pass" it seems there are those who won't believe you anyway. 

Where is the outrage from the Polygraph community? Should not the APA be stepping forward? The silence from polygraph examiners is deafening.
  
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Reply #2 - Sep 21st, 2011 at 7:12pm
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Really, what if? What if he did get a polygraph and he was scored as having told the truth. "But, but, he told the truth and you killed him anyway?" It is kind of deafening.
  
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Reply #3 - Sep 21st, 2011 at 7:14pm
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It doesn't reflect well on the state of Georgia that while the Georgia Bureau of Investigation maintains that polygraphy is a "valid and reliable means to verify the truth," the Georgia Department of Corrections has denied a (quite possibly innocent) man who is about to be executed permission to take a polygraph in an attempt to seek clemency.
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Reply #4 - Sep 22nd, 2011 at 12:11am
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George it is your advice to not take a polygraph examination.  Now you advocate, or persons posting on this board advocate that as a last ditch effort to save this man, polygraph be used.  If it is pseudo science, as advertised here, why would the courts or you be favorable and ask that it be used?

The Defendant should have done polygraph testing long ago in this case.  Studying the case gives me the impression that he may be innocent.  I sincerely doubt the courts in Georgia will accept polygraph evidence.   

This is from a search of laws regarding admissibility in Georgia:

States like California, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and Florida allow the tests if everyone agrees to them, but may put different emphasis on the tests accuracy.   

Georgia, on the other hand, allows defendants who suffer damage because of a false result on a polygraph test (which are somewhat frequent) to sue the polygraph operator for damages 
  
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Reply #5 - Sep 22nd, 2011 at 12:29am
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I am one of those persons you refer to. If the polygraph were as valid as some claim, the results still wouldn't matter. The prosecutors and various higher courts have all ruled the same. They have all the evidence and procedure they need. 

I guess its use is okay to help reject people for jobs, but not okay to validate executions. If Davis took the test and failed (and being innocent), his recourse for suing for damages would be quite limited. 

I'm just saying it's too bad the APA or some famous polygrapher has not ridden in on Silver and asked to have a shot at this case because maybe, just maybe, with its oh-so-keen ability to detect lies (and conversely, determine truthfulness), the polygraph could save a life.

It won't happen because we all know the ground truth: the polygraph is a fraud and its use anywhere in our legal system is a travesty. You only like the results when it suits your purpose.
  
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Reply #6 - Sep 22nd, 2011 at 1:28am
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Bill_Brown wrote on Sep 22nd, 2011 at 12:11am:

This is from a search of laws regarding admissibility in Georgia:

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Georgia, on the other hand, allows defendants who suffer damage because of a false result on a polygraph test (which are somewhat frequent) to sue the polygraph operator for damages 


Incorrect. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol18/iss1/36/.
  
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Reply #7 - Sep 22nd, 2011 at 10:28am
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So this site advocates the abolition of polygraph, unless it can be used to save convicted cop killers?  I don't know if this man's conviction was just or not , but polygraph played no part in it.
  

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Reply #8 - Sep 22nd, 2011 at 3:28pm
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It's a moot point now, but let's suppose a test was conducted, Davis was scored as no deception indicated, and using some literature/resources, a 90% "accuracy" rate is referenced (which is lower that one advertised here: http://www.theftstopper.com/polygraph_employee_theft.htm).

Outcome 1: deception indicated
Well, that just confirms what we already knew/believed: he is guilty, off with his head

Outcome 2: no deception indicated
Given that the prosecution didn't use it in the first place, and already have the utmost confidence in the strength of the case presented, backed up by findings from appeals and reviews, the 10% chance the results are wrong is good enough to proceed with the execution. Who would want to defend that reasoning?

Either way, it is good that polygraphers stayed inside their little industrial park or strip mall offices, filled with the cheap furniture and walls covered with plaques from no-name schools or institutes, and did not offer their truth-divining service in the cause of "truth, justice, and the American way" because the truth of the matter is this: it is unreliable, has practically no validity, is a convenient tool for bullying job candidates, and is not used when it really matters.
  
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Reply #9 - Sep 22nd, 2011 at 7:05pm
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Figs, 

This is the link I copied from.

http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/admissability-of-polygraph-tests-i...

Your link is from 2001 and may be outdated.
  
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Reply #10 - Sep 22nd, 2011 at 7:31pm
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oh, so polygraph works! No, wait it doesn't work!  No, wait, it only works if it vindicates you, it doesn't work if it confirms your guilt!  No, wait, it only works in crim specific, it doesn't work for preemployment!  No, wait,....
  
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Reply #11 - Sep 23rd, 2011 at 4:02am
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Bill, pailryder, quickfix,

I'm not arguing that polygraphy has any validity, or that it should have been relied on in the Troy Davis case. Rather, I was pointing out the incongruity between the public position of one arm of the Georgia state government (that polygraphy is a "valid and reliable means to verify the truth") and another arm of the same government denying a condemned man the opportunity to avail himself of that purportedly "valid and reliable means to verify the truth."

For my views on Davis's polygraph request, see Troy Davis and the Polygraph on the blog.
  

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Reply #12 - Sep 23rd, 2011 at 12:08pm
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In fairness to the state of Georgia, Davis had twenty-two years to seek a polygraph, if he really wanted one.

I see no incongruity in the state recognizing polygraph as a useful, valid investigative tool, but refusing to substitute a polygraph result for a jury's lawful verdict in a criminal case.
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