Stone Mountain polygraph examiner who pleaded guilty to perjury Friday was sentenced to five years probation and fined $1,000, The Florida Times-Union reported.
Kenneth Blackstone, 63, admitted in Glynn County Superior Court that he gave false testimony in pre trial hearings in the trial of convicted mass murderer Guy Heinze Jr.
The Times-Union reported Blackstone was banished from the 5-county Brunswick Judicial Circuit and ordered not to testify in any criminal proceedings in court for two years.
The paper reported that during pretrial hearings last year Blackstone falsely testified he shared results of a polygraph examination of Heinze that indicated he did not commit the crimes with an independent expert.
Prosecutors showed the expert never saw the results, the paper reported.
Heinze was sentenced to life without parole after being convicted last year of killing his father and seven others inside a Brunswick mobile home in September 2009.
Brunswick is a town on the southeastern coast of Georgia about 300 miles from Atlanta.
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