Ohio Court Admits Lie Detector Tests As Evidence

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)."

Ohio, eh?

[ScrewMaster]

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

Re:Ohio, eh?

[PsychoSlashDot]

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?

Re:Weight vs admissibility

[Foobar of Borg]

This might just be a Pennsylvania thing then. I know I always thought it was retarded, but it's how they do things here. I guess I just assumed it was like that everywhere.

Well, in Pennsylvania (except perhaps Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), a juror cannot even drive a car to the courthouse since they don't want the judge's horse disturbed and upset by those loud, new-fangled "automobiles".

Re:Lie Dectectors will persist...

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

There are FOUR lights.

Lie detectors are bullsh*t and don't work!

[Paracelcus]

Back in the 70's I had to pass one for a job I was applying for, I couldn't pass the test questions due to an irregular heartbeat high blood pressure and (at that time) overweight.

If I can illustrate the kinds of test questions that were asked. Do you drink (yes) Bzzt, wrong answer. Are you male (yes) Bzzt, wrong answer. Is it daytime (yes) Bzzt, wrong answer.

Any technology that cannot tell if a fat male drunk is awake in the daytime ain't worth a damn!

No, I didn't get the job.

Re:Accuracy as against usefulness

[Alsee]

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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Re:No

[StikyPad]

You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise crawling toward you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Spyfrog?