A Room Monkey Update

[Crowbob]

Asocial personality types can beat lie detectors quite easily. You really don't have to 'beat" a lie detector test anyway. You just have to confound the results so they become unreliable. For which they are already notorious. In addition, any good lawyer can invalidate and render the findings inadmissable or otherwise tear them to shreds.

[Heel n Toe]

1. RM#1 is still paying you back for the legal bills and will be doing so for quite some time.

2. Just thought about this; has the dismissal opened the door for a suit against RM#2 so she'll have to pay for it?

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

Asocial personality types can beat lie detectors quite easily. You really don't have to 'beat" a lie detector test anyway. You just have to confound the results so they become unreliable. For which they are already notorious. In addition, any good lawyer can invalidate and render the findings inadmissable or otherwise tear them to shreds.

Agreed - in a conventional court setting polygraphs are seldom considered reliable and damning pieces of evidence. However in a different setting with different standards of proof and rules of evidence, they can be a lot more onerous. For example, there are certain employers that can require them as a condition of employment or continued employment - if you "fail" one, you can be terminated without appeal, kind of like it is with drug tests. To fight these kinds of policies would take many years and many tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, so nobody will do it. And they know it. Sadly these sorts of things are becoming increasingly more common...

[imcarthur]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

2. Just thought about this; has the dismissal opened the door for a suit against RM#2 so she'll have to pay for it?

Several factors come into play:

I am not an attorney, but I do know that our legal system is significantly different from yours in tort law & contingency fee awards (not a bad thing imho). While RM #1 does feel wronged, he places the majority of the blame on the police. She was just a stupid **** who got caught with her pants down. They took crumbs & manufactured a bogus criminal case out of it. The chances of successfully winning a wrongful arrest suit against the police or a defamation suit against her would be minimal at best & would take years . And at any point, she could jump on a plane to Beijing & disappear . . .

The failed marriage & this incident have set him back 5 years. We suspect that their marriage was not a picture of bliss anyway. Money is money but our advice to him is to move on.

Ian

[red-beard]

Move on. Living well will be the best revenge.

The most important thing is to not repeat the mistake.

[1990C4S]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

2. Just thought about this; has the dismissal opened the door for a suit against RM#2 so she'll have to pay for it?

Not practical in Canada. Very little to gain, and high risk given the person you want to extract funds from.

Move on, it's over. This has already ended far better than he could have hoped for.