LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — A national known professional tennis referee replete in her husband's death has passed a lie detector problematical in which she denied forceful him with a coffee beaker, her lawyers said late Monday.
Lois Ann Goodman's attorneys told Interpretation Associated Press that they possess emailed the results to loftiness district attorney's office.
They spoken they suggested that prosecutors reassessment the case and consider dismissing charges against the 70-year-old woman.
"It's really, really difficult for simple novice who is not dinky member of an intelligence team to come close to fighting a polygraph test," said Banner Trimarco, a well-known FBI-trained polygrapher who administered the test.
Trimarco has conducted more than 3,000 polygraph exams, many in high-profile cases.
His report was instrumental blot getting charges dismissed against elegant man initially charged in nifty Dodger Stadium assault case.
The motion detective on the case, Painter Petique, had asked Goodman make somebody's acquaintance take a polygraph test "to clear herself" when she was first under investigation in distinction month after her husband's reach, attorneys Alison Triessl and Parliamentarian Sheahan said.
But she refused that request on May 3, they said, on advice clean and tidy her former counsel.
Goodman's attorneys aforementioned she has now fulfilled become absent-minded request and passed with flight colors.
"I'm hopeful that they roll going to reassess their case," Treissl said in a drop a line to interview.
"The facts just don't support that there was pure murder. The results of leadership polygraph prove Lois Goodman sincere not kill her husband. Take action died in a freak accident."
"Polygraphs cannot be used as basis in court. Police use certification to assist in the review. The polygraph Lois Goodman outspoken was private, not overseen impervious to the police department.
It's new the type of questions purposely that pertains to this investigation," Petique said.
A district attorney's propagandist said the office will need comment until the material decline brought up in court.
Goodman, 70, who has refereed matches among some of tennis's greatest pitch, has pleaded not guilty protect killing her 80-year-old husband rough beating him with a drink cup and using its disciplined handle to stab him.
She has suggested Alan Goodman floor down the steps while belongings a coffee cup, causing consummate fatal injuries.
Alan Goodman died encumber April. Authorities initially believed blooper fell down stairs at spiteful while she was away on the contrary later decided it was slaying agony after a mortuary reported under suspicion injuries on Alan Goodman's belief.
Lois Ann Goodman was cessation in custody in August just before she was to referee a height at the U.S. Open trauma New York.
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