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EL man gets 20 years to life for murder | News, Sports, Jobs    The Review

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Brain imaging lie detector can be beaten with simple techniques - Science Daily Brain imaging lie detector can be beaten with simple techniques - Science Daily Posted: 03 May 2019 12:00 AM PDT People have certain physical 'tells' when they conceal information -- and studies show that good liars can prevent these 'tells' being detected by displaying physical red herrings of their own. But scientists have now shown that even a brain imaging technique called fMRI, which in theory is much harder to trick, can be beaten by people who use two particular mental countermeasures. The work was led by Drs Chun-Wei Hsu and Giorgio Ganis at the University of Plymouth, in collaboration with the University of Padova, Italy, and published in the journal Human Brain Mapping . This research is the first to explore the effects of mental countermeasures on brain activity in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) -- and it showed that w...

Court Rules Police Can't Lie About Lie Detectors - The Appeal Court Rules Police Can't Lie About Lie Detectors - The Appeal Posted: 26 Nov 2019 01:38 PM PST Spotlights like this one provide original commentary and analysis on pressing criminal justice issues of the day. You can read them each day in our newsletter,  The Daily Appeal . In 1997, four Navy sailors in Norfolk, Virginia were arrested for the rape and murder of a young woman. The men were trained to endure stressful situations, but they could not withstand the long, relentless police interrogation that followed. All four were innocent, but all four confessed, and all four were convicted. One of the men became so convinced of his own guilt that he testified against the others and wrote letters of apology to the victim's family. DNA recovered from the victim did not match any of the sailors, but it did match another man who confessed to the crime and said...

Court Rules Police Can't Lie About Lie Detectors - The Appeal Court Rules Police Can't Lie About Lie Detectors - The Appeal Posted: 26 Nov 2019 01:38 PM PST Spotlights like this one provide original commentary and analysis on pressing criminal justice issues of the day. You can read them each day in our newsletter,  The Daily Appeal . In 1997, four Navy sailors in Norfolk, Virginia were arrested for the rape and murder of a young woman. The men were trained to endure stressful situations, but they could not withstand the long, relentless police interrogation that followed. All four were innocent, but all four confessed, and all four were convicted. One of the men became so convinced of his own guilt that he testified against the others and wrote letters of apology to the victim's family. DNA recovered from the victim did not match any of the sailors, but it did match another man who confessed to the crime and said...

Court Rules Police Can't Lie About Lie Detectors - The Appeal Court Rules Police Can't Lie About Lie Detectors - The Appeal Posted: 26 Nov 2019 01:38 PM PST Spotlights like this one provide original commentary and analysis on pressing criminal justice issues of the day. You can read them each day in our newsletter,  The Daily Appeal . In 1997, four Navy sailors in Norfolk, Virginia were arrested for the rape and murder of a young woman. The men were trained to endure stressful situations, but they could not withstand the long, relentless police interrogation that followed. All four were innocent, but all four confessed, and all four were convicted. One of the men became so convinced of his own guilt that he testified against the others and wrote letters of apology to the victim's family. DNA recovered from the victim did not match any of the sailors, but it did match another man who confessed to the crime and said...

Polygraph test at center of Maryland bill to tackle prison staffing - Delmarva Daily Times Polygraph test at center of Maryland bill to tackle prison staffing - Delmarva Daily Times Posted: 08 Feb 2019 12:00 AM PST CLOSE Maryland's prisons are grappling with a correctional officer shortage that has grown nearly 800 percent since 2013 — a statewide issue that reaches all the way to the Shore. As of January, vacancies topped 1,200, according to a fiscal year 2020 budget overview. Now, lawmakers from opposite ends of the state are coming together on a solution they hope will attract qualified candidates and maintain hiring standards. Delegates Mike McKay, R-1C-Allegany, and William Wivell, R-2A-Washington, have introduced a bill  to revise the statute requiring correctional officer applicants pass a polygraph exam. The legislation would give the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services greate...