Posted on 06/22/2013 7:39:32 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
In a major victory for murder suspect George Zimmerman, a judge today ruled that prosecutors may not put on the witness stand two state audio experts who say the voice heard screaming in the background of a 911 call was someone other than Zimmerman.
The judge had heard three days of testimony about the science used by the state's experts and ruled that it failed to meet Florida's legal standard.
One of the experts, Alan R. Reich, had concluded the voice he identified as Trayvon is heard yelling "I'm begging you" and "stop." The other, Tom Owen, says he ruled Zimmerman out as the screamer with biometric software.
Both are now banned.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
I guest that this is “kinda” “Good News” for the truth.
Is this a good thing? I thought the ‘experts’ thought it was Z screaming, is that now out as well?
Was Trayvon screaming this while bashing Zimmermans face in?
Why of course according to these two nimrods.
Note, you don’t see that pointed out do you.
I really don’t know how good this is; I just posted it but haven’t read the entire article yet. If ALL experts are out, it’s a bad thing. If just the 2 sheisters are out it’s probably good.
I think the judge is protecting the prosecution from itself. The next question is whether the judge is going to allow any expert witnesses using approved methods and having higher credibility who say it is Zimmerman.
I have to nitpick that headline. At this point the witnesses the state wanted to use can hardly be called “experts”. That was the problem. They are not.
At first blush this seems to be a much needed victory for Zimmerman.
To say they deserve the title of expert about as much as Paul Krugman deserves a Nobel Prize in economics would be an understatement.
Okay, just read it. Looks good for GZ on this issue. Myriad others have gone against him with this shark-eyed judge.
Good question. I wonder if the defense has to bring their people forward to be qualified as experts yet. If not, the defense might want to wait. The prosecution has very little to go on, particularly now.
It is going to be very hard for the prosecutor to construct a plausible scenario in which that is Martin’s voice on the tape.
In fact, I know everyone thinks that Zimmerman is being railroaded. And no doubt there are many in the press and the race-baiting black grievance industry, and probably including the judge, who want that to happen.
But unless there is stunning new surprise evidence that materially changes the picture that has emerged from the reported evidence — notably the angle of the bullet into Martin’s body, and the wounds on Zimmerman’s face and head, I don’t really see how Zimmerman gets convicted.
I don’t necessarily have faith in our justice system, but there is nothing plausible about the prosecution story that Zimmerman hunted down Martin and shot him, and that Zimmerman was not defending himself.
The ORDER EXCLUDING THE OPINION TESTIMONY OF MR. OWEN AND DR. REICH
http://www.gzdocs.com/documents/0613/order_excluding.pdf
One of the experts, Alan R. Reich, had concluded the voice he identified as Trayvon is heard yelling “I’m begging you” and “stop.”
Reich must have grown up with the Sergeant Pepper album(i think that was the one) and believes one song played backwards said,”Paul is dead”.
I believe the “new and improved method” was shown to be inconclusive aka reasonably doubtful.
Woo hoo!
The state’s thinly credentialed experts said it was Trayvon, but O’Mara brought in some real experts who poked all kinds of holes in their claims and their methods and frankly made them look ridiculous. The real experts didn’t say it was Z, just that there’s no way to determine identity from a single short scream recorded by a cellphone using audio analysis. The judge apparently found them persuasive.
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