04-12-2012, 08:01 PM
LC perhaps you can clarify something for me? In the affidavit of probable cause, it states that "Trayvon Martin's mother has reviewed the 911 calls and identified the voice crying for help as Trayvon Martin's voice".
She is the victims mother. How can her statement that the calls for help are Trayvon's be used as evidence? Isn't there bias here? I doubt that she's an expert in voice analysis/recognition, and even if she is, isn't she too close to the case to make an informed, rational opinion? I know if my son was killed by an armed man and I heard screaming on the tape, I would assume it was my son too.
The phone "witness" has bias too. She was at least a friend and possibly a girlfriend of Trayvon.
I did not know that statements by persons with bias were part of an arrest affidavit unless they were actually present at the scene of the crime.
She is the victims mother. How can her statement that the calls for help are Trayvon's be used as evidence? Isn't there bias here? I doubt that she's an expert in voice analysis/recognition, and even if she is, isn't she too close to the case to make an informed, rational opinion? I know if my son was killed by an armed man and I heard screaming on the tape, I would assume it was my son too.
The phone "witness" has bias too. She was at least a friend and possibly a girlfriend of Trayvon.
I did not know that statements by persons with bias were part of an arrest affidavit unless they were actually present at the scene of the crime.