[Devil_Anse]

Thanks. I'm listening to Rita's show now.

I can't believe the police even considered sneaking one of their guys in there and pretending that he was Amber's privately-hired lie detector guy. I think any evidence they might have gathered that way would have been suppressed, which of course means it would have been of absolutely no use to them, and it might have endangered other, legitimate stuff they had gathered.

I also can't believe that these people are sitting there talking as though in testimony all this stuff, about Amber setting up a lie detector, would be allowed in. I believe that any judge they have at trial will forbid any mention of any lie detector--no matter who was going to set it up.

[drjulie]

I agree with you on the lie detector - I can't imagine how it would have benefited the investigation. The bottom line is, though, I don't think Scott would have ever followed through. It does support my hypothesis that he was obsessed with Amber. His pregnant wife is missing and feared dead and he is calling his mistress 20 times a day and offering to take lie detector tests. Even though the lie detector discussion may not come in, I bet there's plenty of other "schoomzing" the jury is going hear.

[MaggieMay]

The lie detector test did not take place because,police did not think they could get their people in place in time and didn't think they could pull it off. Sounds to me like you have read it right,LE figured it was absolutly no use to them in the court and as Judge Hatchett, of the panel said, it could even have backfired on them.