The security guard being investigated in the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park passed a lie detector test during which he denied involvement, according to a former FBI agent who administered the test for the guard's lawyers.
Richard Jewell spent 15 hours on Aug. 4 and Thursday being tested by Dick Rackleff, who is now in private practice and was hired by Jewell's attorneys."He didn't do it," Rackleff said Monday. "There's not any doubt in my mind. He had no knowledge about the bomb."
Jewell, 33, has become a virtual prisoner in the apartment he shares with his mother ever since he was identified by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a suspect in the July 27 bombing. A woman was killed and a Turkish journalist rushing to the scene died of a heart attack.
No one has been charged in the bombing, which also injured 111 people.
Jack Martin, one of Jewell's lawyers, had said that his client should not take an FBI polygraph, partly because he did not trust the bureau to be fair.
"But we had him tested by the best lie detector person I know in Atlanta in the public or private sector and whose integrity is without question," Martin said Monday.
In Georgia's state courts, polygraph tests can be admitted during trial only if the prosecutor and defense attorney agree, which happens rarely. Trial judges in federal courts in Georgia have some discretion to allow the admission of polygraph evidence.