re: #30 Adam, Eve and Steve

Missed this: turns out Tom Owen, the expert cited to prove that it was not Zimmerman who screamed, also thinks that GZ said “punks”:

So every guy with audio enhancement software hears his own thing. “Coons”, “cold”, now “punks”. That’s why I thought the claims of enhancement were dubious from the start and had more to do with fetishization of computers, forgetting about the “garbage in, garbage out” principle. Also, yes, turns out those innocuous filters cleaning up noise do change things enough to change the interpretation of a whole word.

Well, if it can’t be clearly established what Zimmerman said, then that part of the tape likely won’t be usable at trial. The defense will claim it to be inflammatory, and if its not really clear what he said I’d have to agree.