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Report: O.J. Had Flunked Lie Detector

New York Daily News

O.J. Simpson scored “definitely deceptive” on a secret lie detector test he took just two days after the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend.

On a scale where a minus 6 score indicates “borderline” deception, Simpson scored a dismal minus 20, showing “definite deception” in his answers to questions surrounding the June 12, 1994, killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, sources said.

KCBS-TV in Los Angeles the first to report about Simpson’s failed lie detector test on Monday - said he scored “below a minus 6” but did not reveal the ex-football star’s actual rating.

It is unknown what questions Simpson was asked during the test or which queries made the needle jump off the chart because the test report no longer is available, sources said.

Simpson took the polygraph test at the suggestion of his lawyer Robert Shapiro more than a month before lead defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran joined his team.

The test was administered by noted polygraph examiner Edward Gelb in Los Angeles, sources said.

Gelb said a score of minus 20 “definitely would indicate deception.”

Last October, a jury acquitted Simpson of the two killings.