Mr. Specter. Is it your interpretation that the consequence during the course of this polygraph examination may have the ultimate consequence of benefiting him?
Dr. Beavers. I think it could. I would suspect, if I tried to look and see what would happen tomorrow, that he might be somewhat depressed. This usually is what happens with somebody who has been looking forward to something for a long, long time that’s going to be solving all of his problems and it actually happens and nothing much is different, but I think he will be depressed.
Mr. Specter. If he is depressed tomorrow, is that what you would think would be a temporary state?
Dr. Beavers. Yes; I think it.
Mr. Specter. So that that would not necessarily characterize the longrun effects of this examination?
Dr. Beavers. That’s correct.
Mr. Specter. When you characterized a few moments ago his situation as being fatigued, as we all were, do you think that he understood all the questions which were being put to him and then answered them responsively, or do you think that at some point his fatigue reached such a point that he was not responding understandably to the questions?
Dr. Beavers. I was impressed with the skill of the man giving the test. I felt the breaks were fairly well spaced. He didn’t show an excessive amount of fatigue, in my view, except before the first break. He seemed to show more fatigue then than he did later on.
Mr. Specter. Of course, you observed his interest in pursuing a great many topics and the difficulty really in bringing the examination to a close.
Dr. Beavers. Yes; which sort of fits with my feeling about the depression a little bit in that he was aware that, well, “the show is about over,” that his day in court was coming to a close, and I suspect that the long-expected kinds of feelings probably were not as great as he hoped for.