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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Newly released documents show Zimmerman passed lie detector test, Reuters
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by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
The media lynching of George Zimmerman continues.
Yesterday, a slew of documents were released by the prosecution, including
details of a voice stress analysis test I alluded to back in early April.
Those details, reported by The Smoking Gun, follow:
A day after killing Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman passed a police lie
detector test when asked if he confronted the teenager and whether he feared
for his life “when you shot
the guy,” according to documents released today by Florida prosecutors.
According to a “confidential report” prepared by the Sanford Police
Department, Zimmerman, 28, willingly submitted to a computer voice stress
analyzer (CVSA) “truth verification” on February 27. Investigators
concluded that he “has told substantially the complete truth in regards to
this examination.”
Zimmerman, the report noted, “was classified as No Deception Indicated
(NDI).”
Along with questions about whether his first name was George and if it
was Monday, Zimmerman was asked, “Did you confront the guy you shot?’ He
answered, “No.” He was also asked, “Were you in fear for your life, when
you shot the guy.” Zimmerman replied, “Yes.”
Before the CVSA test, Zimmerman--who was apparently not accompanied by
legal counsel--signed a Sanford Police Department release stating that he
was undergoing the examination “voluntarily, without duress, coercion,
threat or promise.”
Reuters made the editorial choice to ignore those findings, instead focusing
on how Zimmerman failed to defuse the situation by properly identifying
himself:
George Zimmerman, the man charged in the killing of Trayvon Martin,
failed on at least two opportunities to identify himself as a neighborhood
watch volunteer before he shot the unarmed teenager, a police investigator
wrote in a report made public on Tuesday.
...
In a report detailing the police investigation into the shooting,
Sanford Police Detective Christopher Serino wrote that Zimmerman "had at
least two opportunities to speak with Trayvon Benjamin Martin in order to
defuse the circumstances surrounding their encounter."
...
According to Zimmerman's statements about the incident, he followed
Martin but then lost track of him and eventually got out his car, only to
have the teenager reappear suddenly and punch him to the ground.
"While Zimmerman was returning to his vehicle, he states he was attacked
by Martin," the report said. "But only after Martin inquires to Zimmerman '
What's your problem?' Zimmerman, instead of attempting to inform Martin of
the reason he was following him, stated to Martin 'I don't have a problem.'"
"ULTIMATELY AVOIDABLE"
The report said Zimmerman had another opportunity to identify himself.
"As Zimmerman responds to Martin, by his own admission, Zimmerman
reaches into his pocket attempting to locate his cell phone," it said. "As
Zimmerman reaches for his cell phone, he stated Martin replies 'You have one
now,' and Martin punches Zimmerman in the face, knocking him to the ground."
The report said the sequence of events was based on Zimmerman's account
and could not be corroborated or refuted by independent witnesses.
But Zimmerman did pass a lie detector test and you'd think at this point in
the story, that might've been relevant. Reuters decided it was not.
What is most interesting here is that it was Reuters, in the piece I
excerpted back in April, that reported Zimmerman passing the voice stress
analysis test. That link, interestingly enough, is now broken.
Convenient. |
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