Polygraph Expert Allowed In Civil Rights Case Alleging Wrongful Murder Conviction

Mealey's (June 1, 2017, 1:12 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A woman suing Chicago police after being wrongly convicted of murdering her young son can present expert testimony that police erred in giving her a lie detector test during a lengthy interrogation and that her responses to the test were truthful, despite the police labeling the test results as “inconclusive,” an Illinois federal judge ruled May 31 (Nicole Harris v. City of Chicago, et al., No. 14-4391, N.D. Ill., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 82698)....

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