The Prosecution was Fryed today
Hint: Relying on CSI: Miami's reputation to try and salvage a faulted "case" won't (shouldn't) work.
The term 'Frye standard' comes from Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013 (D.C. Cir. 1923), a case discussing the admissibility of "scientific" evidence. The Court in Frye held that expert testimony must be based on scientific methods that are sufficiently established and accepted.
The prosecution called two "experts" to testify that the screams heard in the audio recording made the night of the attack on George Zimmerman were the voice of Trayvon Martin.
Two other well qualified scientists in the field had this to say about the prosecution's so-called "expert's" finding:
Cries in 911 call unintelligible
On Saturday, [expert witness] Doddington and a second defense expert, John Peter French, said the methods of the state's two experts were so fundamentally flawed that it was laughable.
The screams are not "even remotely" suitable for analysis, French said.
No respectable scientist would try to compare a recording of someone speaking normally to one of someone screaming and attempt to make an identification, he added.
Doddington said anyone using voice-recognition software to try to identify screams is on "a fool's mission" ...
"I'm sorry. It's all ridiculous," he said.
"It's all ridiculous" pretty well sums up this whole mess.
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