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Todd SchultzLeon, the tests aren't 99% accurate, and I invite any citation to authorities showing it to be 90% accurate. I'd be surprised if it were 80% accurate, and here in AZ it is often considered little more than voodoo science. There is a reason that these tests are WIDELY, WIDELY held inadmissible throughout the country, and not just in beyond reasonable doubt criminal cases.
Jeff, let me ask a rhetorical question, rhetorical in the sense I'm not sure we will ever know. You've already declared Clemens to be a liar from your review of a 12 minute televison interview. If he were to pass a polygraph, would you concede that the test is a more accurate truth-finding tool than your abilities as a cross-examiner? Would you ever advise a client to rest the hopes of his case on a polygraph over your abilities as a lawyer? Because that is exactly what you are risking when you tell Clemens to take the test. Pass the test and it helps, but you're a long way from winning. Fail and you're a short way from losing, in fact you've likely lost. You do it your way, but the day I advise my client to pin his case on the results of that type of test is the same day I call my malpractice carrier for the first time.