Zimmerman Case: Hear Trayvon Martin’s Voice for First Time

By / August 16, 2021

Hey folks, In breaking news, for the first time we have an exemplar of Trayvon Martin’s voice, obtained by ABC News.  To date, the lack of an exemplar has greatly complicated speech analysis of the background screams in the Witness #11 911 call. Trayvon’s voice can be heard here (note that I’ve looped the little …

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Zimmerman Case: Prosecution Speech Expert: “This is not really good evidence.”

By / August 16, 2021

Hey folks, Over at Legal Insurrection I just posted on what can only be described as the train-wreck Frye hearing testimony of the state’s two speech experts.  Based on what I heard live streaming the testimony, it’s hard to believe either of these guys would be called to testify at trial–the blood letting by the defense would …

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Zimmerman case: Out of the Frye-ing pan, into the spectagraph

By / August 16, 2021

Hey folks, Just touching base to let you know I’ve made another blog post on Legal Insurrection regarding the Zimmerman case.  This one focuses on the start of yesterday’s Frye hearing to determine what expert testimony, if any, will be allowed at trial on whether it was Martin or Zimmerman screaming in the background of …

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Zimmerman Case: Dr. Hirotaka Nakasone, FBI, and the low-quality 3-second audio file

By / August 16, 2021

Hey folks, Over at Legal Insurrection I just posted on yesterday’s devastating testimony by Dr. Hirotaka Nakasone, the FBI’s expert on speaker recognition, and his conclusion that attempting to identify the person screaming from the Witness #11 recording can only be described as scientifically “disturbing”.  I discuss his explanation in great detail, but if you …

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Cool news–I’ll be reporting on the Zimmerman trial for the Legal Insurrection web site!

By / August 16, 2021

Hey folks, Some cool news, I’ve been invited by Professor William Jacobson to guest-blog the Zimmerman trial on his outstanding Legal Insurrection web site. If you’re not familiar with Legal Insurrection, you should be–it’s one of the handful of sites I visit faithfully several times a day.   Great content, and well delivered. My first …

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Can the Prosecution Keep Trayvon’s History of Violence and Drug Use from the Jury? Yes . . . and no.

By / August 16, 2021

Last Friday prosecutors in the Zimmerman self-defense case filed in limine motions asking the judge to prohibit defense lawyers from introducing evidence of Trayvon Martin’s history of violence and drug use at trial.   (An in limine motion is simply a request to the judge that certain evidence be excluded from a trial.) Anyone who …

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Drunk, angry guy is kicking your front door, but the court decides that YOU are the aggressor?

By / August 16, 2021

The Facts Eugenio Correa (the Defendant) was visiting with his girlfriend.  Her estranged husband, with whom she had separated five months earlier, phoned her, drunk, seeking to see their daughter.  The girlfriend and Correa were about to leave for the evening, and she told him it wasn’t a good time.  Her ex continued to make …

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When trial courts go stupid on self defense law . . .

By / August 16, 2021

I recently came across a 2011 self defense case out of Kentucky in which the trial court apparently went stupid on the reading of a brief and rather straightforward self defense statute.  Worse, not a lawyer in the room, for either the prosecution or defense, saw the obvious error and corrected matters.  The result was …

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Has Zimmerman Waived His Right to a Pre-Trial “Stand-Your-Ground” Hearing? Learn the Truth.

By / August 16, 2021

Since Tuesday’s court hearing on the George Zimmerman case various news organizations and websites have gone into hysterics claiming that Zimmerman has “waived” his right to a pre-trial “Stand-Your-Ground” hearing, and speculating about the implications for such a “bizarre” decision by his lawyer, Mark O’Hara.  Mostly they conclude that it must mean Zimmerman’s legal defense …

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Can a “colorful” past damage a claim of self defense?

By / August 16, 2021

I came across a recent Indiana Court of Appeals case that does a good job of explaining what kinds of prior bad acts can be brought up in court to impugn someone’s claims of self defense. Anyone who has led a pure-as-snow life needn’t worry about such issues, I suppose, but if you’ve lived a …

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