The lie detector won. In Brooklyn last week Mrs. Edna Hancock, who had pitted her word against that of a lie detector in a recent rape case (TIME, Jan. 10), was indicted for perjury. Her alleged rapist, Murray Goldman, was saved from a ten-year prison sentence.
The case could not alter the fact that lie detectors may sometimes lie,* but that was all right with Mr. Goldman. Mrs. Hancock, an employe of Brooklyn State Hospital, had charged that he broke into her room and tried to rape her. A jury convicted him. But when the lie detector supported his story that he...
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