Twins commit the perfect crime.

[Rman]

German police say at least one of the identical twin brothers Hassan and Abbas O. may have perpetrated a recent multimillion euro jewelry heist in Berlin. But because of their indistinguishable DNA, neither can be individually linked to the crime. Both were set free on Wednesday.

WOW!

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,614245,00.html

[Diunx]

I shall make them Batman villians and sell them to DC comics, them my career as a comic book writer begins.

[OptimoPeach]

Wouldn't a couple of polygraph tests circumvent this?

According to the daily, the twins sent a message that they were "proud of the German constitutional state and gave it their thanks

[Veidt]

lie detectors. Why aren't they used more?

[Tieno]

Wouldn't a couple of polygraph tests circumvent this?

According to the daily, the twins sent a message that they were "proud of the German constitutional state and gave it their thanks

Don't think polygraph tests are considered sufficient/conclusive evidence in Germany.

[OptimoPeach]

Well technically they aren't in the US either, but you think a DNA link coupled with a positive polygraph from one of them would be enough to get the conviction.

[Tieno]

Seems like I could be wrong and in most Euro countries they aren't even considered reliable evidence.

In most European jurisdictions, polygraphs are not considered reliable evidence and are not generally used by police forces. However, in any lawsuit, an involved party can order a psychologist to write an opinion based on polygraph results to substantiate the credibility of its claims. The party must bear the expense themselves, and the court weighs the opinion like any other opinion the party has ordered. Courts themselves do not order or pay for polygraph tests. In most cases, polygraph tests are voluntarily taken by a defendant in order to substantiate his or her claims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph_test#Europe

[OptimoPeach]

Courts themselves do not order or pay for polygraph tests

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph_test#Europe

Yeah, that explains it.

[Tieno]

lie detectors. Why aren't they used more?

Coincidentally, I had a class about lying and liedetection last thursday. Biggest problem is that to get the best results you need to compare the behaviour you're watching (physiologically, speech, expressions, micro expressions, etc) to that person's normal (baseline) behaviour...Since that's usually impossible in these sorts of cases it's very hard to get reliable results.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

For some reason I thought this was going to be about the baseball team.  I must've forgot where I was at.

[Guybrush Threepwood]

fuck lie detectors

watch this video:

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Madrun Badrun]

I think this was a law and order episode!  I know I've heard of this plot before.