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Originally Posted by Rudey
I thought the accuracy rates on lie detectors, while not 100%, were still pretty high. And from what I knew beating them was like beating a lot of drug tests, your test comes out hazy but not completely clean.
-Rudey
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While we can't use them in court, the law practice I work at uses them for our clients. For example, if the wife alleges that there's a certain piece of information outstanding in a divorce, and the husband alleges that she's mistaken, husband can go take a polygraph test to get wife off of his back.
We also used a polygraph a few months back to see if our client was telling the truth regarding police brutality in his arrest. Our guy passed the polygraph with flying colors and D.A. was persuaded to drop 2 or 3 felony charges and a couple misdemeanors (the cops used those most likely to cover the fact that they beat our guy to a pulp) and reduced everything to a misdemeanor DUI for which our guy did something like 5 weekends in a private detention facility.
So they're not useful in court, but there are other applications for which they are useful.
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