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Do Not Take A Polygraph

Polygraph results are not admissible in court because they are not reliable. Further, in our experience, a person can undergo two polygraphs with two different examiners, with the same questions, and receive two different results.

Police choose to believe a suspect’s polygraph result if it shows deception. However, if a suspect’s polygraph result demonstrates a suspect is telling the truth, police choose not to believe the polygraph result. In short, police opine if a person fails they are guilty and if a person passes they are guilty.

Interestingly, the police polygraph most always finds the suspect to be deceptive. In reality, the police do no care about the polygraph results. The polygraph is simply a psychological ploy used in the interrogation process. Even if the suspect passes the police polygraph, the police typically lie telling the suspect he or she failed to “break” the suspect. The goal is to cause the suspect to become emotional and talk.

Do not take a polygraph.

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