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Ohio Court Admits Lie Detector Tests As Evidence

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the good-enough-for-maury dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last month, an Ohio court set a new precedent by allowing polygraph test results to be entered as evidence in a criminal trial. Do lie detectors really belong in the court room? AntiPolygraph.org critiques the polygraph evidence from the this precedential case (Ohio v. Sharma)."

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  1. Ohio, eh? by ScrewMaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was thinking about moving to a different State, but hadn't figured out which one. Now I'm down to 49 possibilities.

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    1. Re:Ohio, eh? by PsychoSlashDot · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was thinking about moving to a different State, but hadn't figured out which one. Now I'm down to 49 possibilities.

      Given your subject line of "Ohio, eh?" and you're moving to a different state, and that you're down to 49 possibilities, I can only conclude you're one of those that view Canada as the 51st state. Come on up, we've got plenty of room, beer, and freshly-clubbed baby seals to go around. You do like hockey, eh?
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  2. Re:Lie Dectectors will persist... by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 3, Funny

    There are FOUR lights.

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  3. Re:Accuracy as against usefulness by Alsee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe someone else can come up with a link, but I recall some time ago reading a hysterical story about some police officers with a fax machine in the interrogation room and telling the dopey criminal that it was a lie detector... no special chair and no blood pressure monitors or anything connected to the machine just a plain old fax sitting on a shelf... and second officer in the adjacent room simply faxing in "lie" and "true" messages... and very quickly having the guy terrified of this "mind-reading machine" and spilling his guts.

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