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Accuracy of Widely-Used Polygraph Machine Under Fire
Loaded on May 6, 2015
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2015, page 36
Filed under:
Polygraphs,
Mechanical Searches/Scanners,
Arrestee Searches,
Crime Labs.
Location:
United States of America.
In the hands of a skilled operator, such as the late John Reid of John E. Reid and Associates, one of the early pioneers in the lie detection field, the polygraph can be a useful tool. Reid, along with noted Northwestern Law School criminal law professor Fred Inbau, essentially originated ...
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