To: Bill_Brown aka F. Lee Bailey, Johnny Cochran, Matlock or whoever you think you are...

You made a direct statement to me regarding polygraph results being admitted in State Courts over the objection by prosecutors.

All I ask is that you give me just one cite where that occurred. Specifically, In the State of Florida. Just because you say it's true doesn't necessairly mean so, right???

Stay on point Counselor!!!!!!

P.S. Boy! I'm glad you're not my attorney!!!

Mr. McCallister, 

You are 100% correct and i will refrain from further posts regarding your situation.  Have a good day. 

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I consider it substantive to warn the public about sexual predators.  If you don't, we'll have to agree to disagree.

To: Lane99

This is a perfect example of why detectives should polygraph potential victims of sexual assault.

If the alleged victim cannot pass the examination, the detectives should take safeguards to insure that all angles of the casefacts are investigated before making an arrest. 

The last thing we want to do is falsely accuse an innocent person of commiting a sexual crime.

Example: **************************************

POLK COUNTY -- APRIL 14, 2012 
A civilian employee with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office was arrested after deputies say she lied about being sexually battered by her father.

Polk County Sheriff's Special Victims detectives arrested and charged 26-year-old Heather Johnson of Winter Haven with one count false reporting to law enforcement regarding a capital felony.
 
According to the affidavit, Johnson told detectives that when she was 5 years old, she was sexually battered by her biological father, and that she had not had contact with him since.

After conducting a full investigation and interviewing all parties involved, detectives again interviewed Johnson, who admitted she lied about what she had reported, according to the sheriff’s office.
 
Johnson resigned immediately upon her arrest. She has been booked into the Polk County Jail.   
 
Before her arrest and resignation, Johnson was most recently assigned as a Telecommunications Shift Supervisor.

She originally worked for Polk County Fire/EMS as a dispatcher, and was hired in July 2010 as a PCSO Telecommunicator just prior to the joint Polk County Sheriff's Emergency Communications Center becoming operational.

'au contraire mon frere'

Polygraph examinations, when used properly, can be a great investigative tool pointing the investigation in the right direction.

There doen't need to be any hard core interrogation, thus, keeping the alleged victim from further trama, if indeed; the allegation is true.

It can also keep an innocent person from being tramatized. Both parties are important. Truth should be exposed, and only guilty parties punished. That is what true justice and the exposure of truth means to me.

When there is evidence the victim is manufacturing or confabulating a story, regarding the suspect, then ask them to take a polygraph.  If there is no evidence of this, then absolutely do not stress, tramatize and re-victimize any sexual assault victim. I certainly would not.

But, if there is well-founded suspicion that the victim is not being truthful about the alleged sexual assault a more indepth investigation is demanded and expected to ensure justice. Especially, when the suspect is adamant the sexual assault did not happen.

If the suspect lawyers up you can't test them. If this happens, ask the other party (alleged victim) "could you pass a polygraph examination regarding this complaint?" Usually, the person will say "yes".

You should not make anyone feel that you do not believe them unless you have additional proofs, post-test. There should be no interrogation before administering the test.  The polygraph should only be used in cases where victim and suspect tell different stories. He said, She said.

Since the 5th amendment of the US Constitution protects suspects from making self incriminating statements, no intimidation or threats should ever be used. Attorneys sometime have their client tested privately then release results, if they exonerate the client.

In any event, the polygraph should never be used as a scare tactic, on anyone, period. It should only be used to point the investigation in the right direction.

Due to recent changes in Florida law.  The victim of sexual assault cannot be requested to take a polygraph test.  Therefore, unless you have physical evidence, it is often difficult to determine the truth.

According to the language in this law.  You can request but not require the alleged victim, of a sexual battery, to submit to polygraph testing.