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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (226)	1/11/2000 1:04:00 AM
From: CJ	Respond to of 1397

< are the New Haven police willing to exonerate Jim if he passes? No, they aren't.> Jeff -- It surprises me that you would post something as fact which, from everything you have written and said, is not fact at all. You and Jim's lawyer have said that he now refuses to take a polygraph test because they declined his offer earlier, and now there is not any reason to trust the NHPD. Please correct me and point me to the reference post(s) or P.R.(s) in which the NHPD has said that it refuses to exonerate Jim if he "passes' a polygraph examination. . My understanding is that there has not be any negotiation of the conditions under which the exam would be administered {ie. by whom, when, where}, nor of what the agreement would be if Jim "passes." The 'childish" reasons for Jim not wanting to take the polygraph test now - "because they wouldn't give it to me when I wanted it" - look ridiculous in the "Court of public opinion." There are often compelling reasons why a polygraph test is not administered to a suspect at the commencement of any investigation. An example would be, as is likely the case here, at the time Jim's initial offer was made, the forensic evidence was still being gathered and analyzed. (Some of you might be tempted to knee-jerk reply "That's absurd, all they need to ask him is if he killed her." As we all have seen, whoever " S & S'd" Suzanne may not have "killed her" from a technical sense. Other than the control questions, the questions must be very carefully and specifically worded for a polygraph examination to be valid.) The "trust" reasons for Jim refusing to take the polygraph now are, IMO, without merit. Jim has highly competent legal counsel. There are agreements made daily throughout the country which cover "trust" considerations for the benefit of the person being examined/tested. The "Dateline" illustration does not do anything for me as being relevant here. . If Jim has some other reason for refusing, so be it; but his published reasons thus far leave a very large question: What is he afraid of and trying to hide?