I was under investigation earlier this year for a crime I did not commit. My attorney had me take a polygraph test with a private individual who is very well respected in the field. He was the head of a large police departments polygraph dept and trains many people throughout the country. He now has his own private practice. My attorney sends his clients there before he sends them to the sherrifs dept for the real one. If his clients fail the private one he doesn't send them to the real one. Anyway, I passed the private one. My attorney has never had someone pass the private one and fail the sherriff. In fact the private polygrapher trained the current county sherriff polygrapher. So when i took the polygraph test with the sherriff my attorney did not have me take the post test. He never has his clients do this and said it is common. The county polygrapher said this was unusual and said the prosecution really wanted me to take the post test. He told me I could walk out after the actual testing was done but he wouldn't sign anything that pre-approved me not taking the post test. So that is what i did. I took the test and when that part was done I said "Is this when I should leave?" and he said "yes." He told me he would be out in a minute to tell my attny and myself the results. He came out about 45 mins later and said "I know the results of your private test and these were a little different. There were indicators that showed signs of deception. I'd really like to get you back in for the post test." To which my attorney said, no way and asked for specifics. "Well there were just some indicators that showed deception." And he would not give specifics. He then told us he would have the results to us the next day or the day after. that was in April and we have not been shown the results and have not been able to get a hold of them. It was understood that if I pass that polygraph the criminal charges that had not been brought forth yet would be dropped. If I failed they were going to go after me with 1st degree in my case. About three weeks after the test I was offered a plea for 4th degree, which is a misdimeanor. We actually had a third party, "impartial party" hired by a judge to investigate some of the background of my whole case and they have access to all documents. They have a legal right to everything under the sun. The third party tried through the prosecution and the sherriffs department to get the results and could not get them. She told us she has never had this problem before. The prosecution throughout the discussions would say that I failed the polygraph test, but when we asked for results they would not give them to us.



What are my rights to seeing my results of that test? I mean all the detail. This has been one small piece of the nightmare my family and myself have been going through and would really like to get the raw data from that test. Does anyone know where I would start?



Thanks a lot.



