John “Jack” Consigli has been conducting polygraph examinations for 35 years. A graduate of the famous Backster School of Lie Detection, Mr. Consigli was personally trained by Cleve Backster, one of the pioneers of the polygraph profession and the father of the control question polygraph, numeric scoring, and the zone comparison question technique.
John is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Polygraph Association and a two-term past president of the APA. He has lectured and taught polygraph to polygraph organizations and government agencies throughout North America and the world, including locations in Europe, Mexico, South America, Malaysia, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. John is also a guest lecturer for numerous polygraph schools and state polygraph associations.
John is a highly respected polygraph expert whose work product will stand up to intense scrutiny by local, state, or federal law enforcement polygraph examiners.
Attorneys who are seeking polygraph results that will influence District Attorney prosecutorial decisions need to ensure that those results can withstand evaluation by law enforcement examiners and other experts.
John’s strict adherence to research-validated testing formats, numerical scoring, and question formulation ensures that his examinations can withstand that scrutiny.
About John Consigli, MA
John “Jack” Consigli has been conducting polygraph examinations for 35 years. A graduate of the famous Backster School of Lie Detection, Mr. Consigli was personally trained by Cleve Backster, one of the pioneers of the polygraph profession and the father of the control question polygraph, numeric scoring, and the zone comparison question technique.
John is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Polygraph Association and a two-term past president of the APA. He has lectured and taught polygraph to polygraph organizations and government agencies throughout North America and the world, including locations in Europe, Mexico, South America, Malaysia, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. John is also a guest lecturer for numerous polygraph schools and state polygraph associations.
John is a highly respected polygraph expert whose work product will stand up to intense scrutiny by local, state, or federal law enforcement polygraph examiners.
Attorneys who are seeking polygraph results that will influence District Attorney prosecutorial decisions need to ensure that those results can withstand evaluation by law enforcement examiners and other experts.
John’s strict adherence to research-validated testing formats, numerical scoring, and question formulation ensures that his examinations can withstand that scrutiny.
John Consigli has taught polygraph to government examiners here in the United States as well as abroad (Malaysia, Oman, Dubai, Serbia, Slovakia).
John Consigli at an American Polygraph Association International Seminar with his mentor, Mr. Cleve Backster, one of the founding fathers of modern-day polygraph.
John Consigli (third from left) providing instruction at MIT to researchers looking at using polygraph components to cure ADHD.
Outstanding Credentials of
John Consigli
- Connecticut Polygraph Association
- Past Chairman of the American Polygraph Association (APA) Board of Directors
- Retired Massachusetts State Police Captain Supervising Polygraph and Internal Affairs
- Solved numerous homicides, rapes, robberies, and other violent crimes, as well as assisting law enforcement agencies in riding their departments of officers involved in criminal behavior.
- Two-term Past President of the American Polygraph Association
- Polygraph School Instructor and Lecturer
- Started the first post-conviction sex offender polygraph testing program in Massachusetts and due to its success, led to passage of the Community Supervision for Life Law (Ch. 74 of the Acts of 1999) which has reduced the number of sexual assault victims in MA.
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Relevant Court Cases in Which John Consigli was the Examiner
COMM vs. Ademyemi Jaieoba
Daubert-Lanigan Hearing, June 13, 2017
Norfolk Superior Court
