CSC polygraph in MI advice

[helplessinMI]

I will try to condense this as much as possible.

Someone I know is a recent parolee from prison. He was convicted of CSC 4 & served 4 years. Now paroled, his parole officer wants him to take a polygraph test. He wants to see his children, now that he is out, but the PO won't let him, because of a past police report when he was 12 years old.

Here's the history:
When he was 12 years old, he was accused of 3 counts of CSC 2 & coercion. His lawyer & him dealed & pleaded no contest to assault or assault & battery, in exchange for the CSC & coercion charges to be dropped. The courts agreed & he served some probation time doing community service. He has the court records to confirm this.

When he turned 18, he asked the court to expunge his record. They agreed to expunge his record & the court records were deleted, I imagine. Only the original police reports still remained, which the parole officer has seen. But with no court record of his expunsion, the PO has no proof of the expunsion. As a result, the PO believes that he was convicted of these crimes from the past, as well, which he was not!

Bump up to the present, on the Michigan sex offender registry, his conviction for which he was sent to prison for is posted. BUT! In addition to that, they posted the original charges of CSC 2 from when he was 12. He was NOT convicted & sent to prison on these charges from when he was 12 years old. He has the court documents to prove that. He was only convicted of assault & battery. He showed these court documents to his PO, but the PO wants to give him a polygraph test, before the PO lets him see his kids. All the PO has seen is the original police report from when he was 12 & the PO is basing decisions on that, as there are no expunsion records at the courts.

Finally, my question(s):
1) Can the polygraph operator legally ask him questions irrelevant to the original convictions he went to prison for, such as questions stemming from his past & these past charges?

2) If asked about these past charges & history from when he was 12, is he in violation of his parole if he refuses to answer?

3)Is he legally required to answer or can he plead the 5th or something like that?

4) Can the PO legally restrict him, based on these charges from the past, that he was never convicted of?

5) Can the charges from his past be legally posted on the sex offender site, even when he was never found guilty of them in the first place?

6) What are his options to force them to remove false charges from the sex offender site?

I know this is a short novel, I'm sorry. But we are at a wits end & feel helpless. PLEASE excuse me for saying so, but we cannot afford lawyer fees of any sort. And the past has convinced me that lawyers are for the rich & priveliged, not for us common folks. I don't mean to offend anyone here & I'm not bashing, just the cold, hard facts I'm used to.

I would appreciate any competent advice immensely!

Thank You in advance!

[randalljd]

You should at least get a public defender to intervene. And the lawyer should be there for any questioning or testing--if you agree to testing.

Those tests are often not reliable so you don't have to agree but if you do, legal counsel should be involved.

There are lawyers there for everybody if you push the issue enough; you may just to have work at it a bit.