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Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, January 18, 1984 Geter refuses lie detector, confident of being cleared United Press International DENMARK, S.C. — Black en gineer Lenell Geter said Tues day he refused a lie-detector test that could have cleared him of armed robbery charges because the examiner isn’t qualified. “I’ve taken three polygraph tests and passed those and I think the whole thing is un necessary,” Geter told UPI in a telephone interview. “I think they’ll drop the charges,” he said. “I have faith. I’m looking at it from a spiritual point of view.” Geter had until Monday to take a lie-detector test in Texas or face a second trial for the 1982 holdup of a Kentucky Fried Ghicken stand in a Dallas suburb. Dallas police officer who owns a polygraph business. Geter, 26, was sentenced to life in prison for the stickup but the conviction was overturned in December. “I have always said I’m going at the advice of my attorneys and I agree with them, we’re not going with Parker because he’s a part-time examiner,” Geter said. “He doesn’t have the proper credentials to issue the test.” • When he was released on an appeal bond, Dallas County Dis trict Attorney Jienry Wade said he would drop the charges if Ge ter passed a polygraph test administered by Bill Parker, a The engineer said he would prefer an examiner with “at least something to say that he’s not necessarily doing this on the side as a tree-shade mechanic might do.” “In effect this is my life and I want the best examiner possible to examine me.” Geter has maintained throughout his ordeal that slop py police work and racism land ed him behind bars. “From the very inception, my incarceration was a fallacy in that I was arrested simply be cause I’m black,” he-said. “Be cause I was black I was arrested. “There seems too exist no corrective remedies to prevent this kind of activity from hap pening to anybody. 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