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Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's
Hugh Pickens writes "As the Trayvon Martin controversy splinters into a debate about self-defense, a central question remains: Who was heard crying for help on a 911 call in the moments before the teen was shot? Now the Orlando Sentinel reports that Tom Owen, a leading expert in the field of forensic voice identification sought to answer that question by analyzing the recordings. His result: It was not George Zimmerman who called for help. Owen, forensic consultant for Owen Forensic Services LLC and chair emeritus for the American Board of Recorded Evidence, used voice identification software to rule out Zimmerman. Another expert contacted by the Sentinel, utilizing different techniques, came to the same conclusion. Owen used software called Easy Voice Biometrics to compare Zimmerman's voice to the 911 call screams. 'I took all of the screams and put those together, and cut out everything else,' says Owen. The software compared that audio to Zimmerman's voice and returned a 48 percent match. Owen says to reach a positive match with audio of this quality, he'd expect higher than 90 percent. Owen cannot confirm the voice as Trayvon's, because he didn't have a sample of the teen's voice to compare however 'you can say with reasonable scientific certainty that it's not Zimmerman.'"
If only the guy who shot another person without witnesses would have been actually *investigated*, instead of letting him walk entirely on his own testimony...
In short, you don't know what you are talking about, in pretty much any regard. Well done.
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In addition, an eyewitness, 13-year-old Austin Brown, told police he saw a man fitting Zimmerman's description lying on the grass moaning and crying for help just seconds before he heard the gunshot that killed Martin.
Would coudl possibly go wrong with enough people having your level in insight?
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It's a wonder that civilization withstands your level of insight as it appears to be all too common.
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We know for a fact that he began from a position of safety (since he was on the phone w/ 911)
Being on the phone does not magically make one safe.
We know the victim had no weapon.
Did Zimmernan at the time? In any case, eyewtinesses said they saw Treyvon beating up Zimmerman. Treyvon was a young 6' 3" muscular basketball player. Zimmerman is 5'9", 250lbs, so unlikely to be able to run away. Police confirm Zimmerman had a broken nose. If I was getting beat up by someone who could run me down if I tried to run away, and I had a gun, I would shoot.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
You can't kill someone because you have a boo-boo.
And if the injuries were severe enough to justify lethal force, Zimmerman would have been taken to the ER for at least a cat-scan to make sure there aren't any skull fractures.
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Zimmerman was an armed man following him
Why does it matter if Zimmerman was armed? Why does the mere presence of a gun freak you out so totally you lose the ability to think through the situation?
It might if Martin knew the gun was there, but obviously Zimmerman still had it concealed or WHY WOULD AN UNARMED GUY ATTACK A MAN WITH A GUN?
So all you have is one guy, free able to walk where he wants, followed by another guy who is also free to walk where he likes.
Don't like being followed? Fine, but that's not call to attack someone.
We know from a witness in the end that Zimmerman was on the ground being attacked. We know from the police reports Zimmerman was wounded on the back of the head. That's not a wound you can really get if you are simply going to shoot a guy.
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