Excluding voice experts impacted trial outcome

The state had two voice experts listen to the 911 tape that recorded the screams for help

during the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin fight. They also analyzed Zimmerman's voice and were ready to testify that they were certain the voice crying for help was not that of Zimmerman but they could not say it was Martin's because they couldn't get Martin's voice from the grave. The judge didn't allow the voice experts to testify because they couldn't say whose voice it was. Of course, if it wasn't Zimmerman's voice, it was Martin's.

Why would a grown man with a 9 mm pistol yell for help just before he shot and killed Martin? Of course the voice was Martin's desperately crying for help because he knew he was about to be shot and killed.

In retrospect, the judge almost guaranteed Zimmerman's acquittal by not allowing the voice experts to testify and she had no legal basis to deny this testimony. She certainly allowed seven defense witnesses to say they were certain it was Zimmerman's voice.

William Peterson

North Liberty