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Defense attorneys begin to get notifications about scrutinized lab technician http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_biotox06.4609a6f.html... In summary
Forensic Lab Technician Aaron Layton FAILED a polygraph test for the Columbus Ohio Police Department in 2003.
When Layton applied for a job with the Columbus Police Department in 2003, he failed his initial polygraph test and then made a series of admissions during a second test.
Among those admissions:
Layton told the polygraph operator that while conducting a marijuana test for the Arapahoe County Probation Department in Colorado, he got an initial positive result but skipped a required second test, then lied about it in his report. He also said he "committed perjury" when he testified about the test in court.
Layton said this action was not unique -- while working for Forensic Laboratories he "never conducted confirmatory tests and he falsified his reports 'hundreds of times.' "
He said while working at the Colorado lab, he would forge his supervisor's signature and notary stamp on affidavits involving evidence and procedural results.
A convicted Sex Offender he was arrested in Denver in 2007 for failing to register as a sex offender and is still on probation, but he decided to seek the relatively polygraph free environment of the left coast.
He subsequently found employment with a company called Bio-Tox running forensic tests for agencies including Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties.
His history and the admissions he made following his polygraph test have called into question every evidentiary test he has conducted and will likely cost thousands of dollars to resolve, not to mention the possible human cost of convictions based on his perjured testimony. All of which could have been prevented with a pre-emloyment polygraph.
Just like the one he failed for Columbus P.D.
This is one excellent example of why companies providing evidentiary services to Law Enforcement and the Courts should be exempt from the Employee Polygraph Protection Act restrictions prohibiting Pre-employment polygraph testing.
I can't wait to see how GM and his peanut gallery respond to this one.
Polygraph Place Bulletin Board
posted 03-06-2009 11:12 AM
