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  As an occasional defendant I'm happy to see a defense attorney that won't put up with the prosecution doing this.
context: He had a business to promote: a miracle method to determine when 911 callers are actually guilty of the crimes they are reporting. “I know what a guilty father, mother or boyfriend sounds like,” he once said.
  
  that might be the most erroneous batshit dangerous thing i've seen a person say in some time >
  
  He isn't even a linguist. He qualifications are, trust me bro. 
  This "science" is meant to rule suspects out. Not proof of their guilt. >
  
  It isn't even effective for that. This is effectively as reliable as consulting a psychic to solve crimes. >
  
  Shawn Spencer has entered the chat >
  
  Except Shawn was actually a good detective. >
  
  Well yeah, that's the fictional part of the show. >
  
  I’ve heard it both ways. >
  
  
  “Witnesses to a crime scene should be able to report their observations clearly,” Harpster and Adams wrote.
  
  A decade or so ago a guy I know lost his wife to a home invasion gone wrong. She walked in on the burglar and he ended up slitting her throat so deeply that it almost severed the spinal cord.
  The guy i know was out of town when the murder happened. His father in law (her father) found her nearly decapitated body in a huge pool of blood when he came to the house looking for her.
  I defy ANYBODY who found their child like that to be able to report the observations clearly and with the proper grammar when calling 911 to report it. There's no way in hell any sane person would be composed enough to do that. >
  
  Seriously. There's no proper way to call 911, especially if reporting on a traumatic scene. Some people might be borderline hysterical and unable to put together coherent sentences, never mind accurately describe the scene in front of them. Some people might go into shock and sound abnormally calm or detached. You would also need to know an individuals regular speech patterns, education, cultural background, and tons of other information if you were to even begin to judge whether or not they sound "normal" on a 911 call. But this guy literally claims that anyone who says "please," "hi," or "huh?" at any time is showing indicators of guilt. 
  It's one thing for a moron like this to come up with this "system" as a way to grift money from law enforcement agencies and state prosecutors, but the fact that a lot of people with great power in our criminal justice system apparently believe in it is fucking terrifying. >
  
  I was a police dispatcher for 5 years and heard it all.  Calm, panic, shyness, fear, whispers, screams... I've heard it all.  Ask a seasoned dispatcher if "guilt" can be determined by a 911 call and they'll tell you hell no. I was also an LEO for three years and I can't imagine a ridiculous program like this ever passing muster by the higher-ups. Continuing Education Request denied, lol. >
  
  From reading the article, it seems like a big part of this scam was that it continues to be an approved training course for police and prosecutors alike. The Ohio State Supreme Court approved the course as part of it's continuing education programs that prosecutors are required to take, which helped to give the course an air of legitimacy for police departments who want to bring him in. Unsurprisingly, while he claims his training is based on scientific evidence, he goes to great lengths to make sure the data he uses, and the specifics of the course itself, remain a secret. He bans journalists and pretty much anyone who isn't a police officer from taking the course, he refuses to share his data with anyone who requests it, and he wouldn't even teach the course online for fear that it might leak out. Those are obviously huge red flags for anyone who might be concerned that this "science" is a bunch of made up bullshit, but apparently many police officers and prosecutors are still big fans. >
  
  That's quite concerning, and indicative of lazy police work IMO. >
  
  As a defense attorney, my blood boils whenever I see prosecutors bending rules or using junk science. It's garbage, and innocent people pay the price.