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Actually AaronD, although the polygraph examiner didn't use all my questions (she/he used about 60% of them at his/her discretion) I tried very hard, with limited notice & time, mind you, to bury him and trip him up, "if," he was attempting to be deceitful with his responses. With me formulating the questions there's going to be an understandable "perception" of bias since I've intimately investigated the case (understatement) for over a year and not ashamed to say I've become good friend's with Justin & the driver through that process (thanks to his/their 100% cooperation with me and our shared interests outside bigfooting). The tradeoff, on the positive side, is I've got the most internal knowledge to accurately probe him and am qualified with my educational background in Criminology/Law Enforcement. Friends or no friends, I have a responsibility to everybody, including myself and especially Justin, to give him the best I got and I treated him as if I was an opposing attorney trying to bury him on the stand. A matter of fact, when I got the call that he passed, Ro said laughingly, "dude," the examiner (not knowing full story yet) read the questions and asked "uhmm, is this guy is supposed to be his friend? I can't use some of these?" probably because many were loaded. The only discussion and or advice about the test I'd given Justin prior to him being abruptly confronted with it after thinking it was indefinitely postponed, was a few days prior when I told him "if you're really going to do this and I'm writing questions, you know it's not going to be easy, and to "listen" carefully to the question being asked by whomever is administering it." He said "I'm ready, and have nothing to hide and you know I want to do this." I completed the questions the night prior at my sister-in-law's house where I was having dinner (thinking I had a few days of cushion to make changes) and sent them to Ro via email. Ro was apparently already interviewing the driver (whom I've spent countless time with as well) and had several of the Tazer gang & Justin with him at a Sacramento residence when he received them. FYI, many of my questions were left out as I mentioned due to the discretion of the administrator of the exam and asking if he took the juvenile's body was not one of them because I didn't want to waste a question on a completely asinine (in my opinion) question that began as a baseless internet rumor. I admittedly didn't really want Justin to take the test for several reasons, not one of which was me at all being concerned about him passing. My main concern was that he can't win for losing and there's nothing to gain in the interim while the potentially definitive evidence is being processed. I mean, he passes easily and you'll have persons making unqualified but definitive statements challenging the science of polygraphs (sound familiar), he fails, and not even the staunchest backer of his would contend there was possibly a "false negative." To be honest, I was confident he'd pass (I really "believe" they are both telling the truth, but don't "know" they are), but I didn't expect him to knock it out of the park and pass 100% the right way..."trembling." I have a very good understanding of polygraphs as they are not foolproof and are mainly used by law enforcement as a psychological tool to elicit confessions. However, on the same token I don't believe that they are easy to pass with a qualified examiner if you merely "believe" (lot harder in reality then on paper) your story and have no opportunity to practice. Furthermore, I believe Justin "believes" that they work better then some of you do and although he's much smarter then many give him credit for, I honestly don't believe he's the type of person who can walk in nervous and unexpectedly be presented with it and hit it out of the park as the final report suggests. At the end of the day though, I look at the test for what it is, a potentially nice companion piece and antiquity, if you will, that I hope will inevitably go along with convincing DNA results from either or both of our team (myself, Tyler H & Justin) having both "circumstantial" (tissue sample) and "non-circumstantial" (boots) evidence tested independently with two NA labs currently, and or Melba Ketchum's study with respect to the "circumstantial" (tissue) evidence she's possessed since a short time after the purported shooting. BTW, with respect to the anticipated final determinations (don't appear being real close to being finished on our end), the only promise I'll make to anybody is providing 110% transparency (official lab reports, all emails communications etc...) "regardless" of what is determined. That's the best we can do and what we set out to do.