Bigjon
10th April 2012, 02:45 AM
Mr. Steele’s appeal? An update, 2/25/2012 (http://www.free-edgar-steele.com/740/mr-steeles-appeal-an-update-2252012/)
2012 February 25
by admin
(The following info was submitted for posting here, to update supporters and observers.)
The transcripts of all prior hearings were ordered and have been filed with the trial court. Other deadlines are approaching (see below).
An appellate attorney has been engaged for Edgar. An appeal will be filed within the time period provided. The appellate dates are as follows:
Wed., April 4, 2012, Appellant’s opening brief and excerpts of record are due.
Fri., May 4, 2012, Appellee’s (Govt’s) answering brief and excerpts of record are due.
An optional reply brief would be due within 14 days after appellee’s brief is served. For good cause, the above dates are subject to modification.
Little Scholar permalink
March 15, 2012
1. A different strategy: go after FBI Agent Sotka and Judge Winmill. Sue them both. ALL of the evidence against them is in the court records.
Instead of an appeal, first enter a lawsuit against FBI Agent Sotka, who destroyed the original recordings and thereby obstructed justice.
Having won this point if possible, then go back and get the conviction overturned by declaring a MISTRIAL.
The recordings introduced as evidence by FBI Agent Sotka weren’t the originals, they were copies. Originals are required at trial, not copies. Can’t a MISTRIAL be declared on this basis alone? Since the entire premise of the prosecution was based on the audio recordings (as corroboration of what Larry Fairfax claimed), that means the central point in the prosecution’s case was, in effect, unsubstantiated. Go for a MISTRIAL, not an appeal! Am I wrong here?
2. Was George Papcun’s testimony intentionally made impossible because he was the Ace-In-The-Hole for Edgar Steele (see below)? A trip to Tahiti within two days … planned and paid for far in advance? A coincidence? Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill wouldn’t accommodate the availability of the witness for a man accused of a serious felony? A violation of the 6th Amendment of the Bill of Rights? A $120,000 chartered jet was required to fly the witness in from his vacation?? The jet company backed out at the last minute … a coincidence? A harrowing experience for Steele, driving up his cortisol to destructive levels? Physical torture through psychological means.
The judge’s refusal to accommodate that vacation constitutes SILENCING OF A WITNESS by the Court. It doesn’t help to be able to subpoena a witness if the witness has a major conflict and the judge won’t budge. Isn’t that ‘witness tampering?’ The 6th Amendment doesn’t just give you the right to subpoena witnesses or documents, it gives you the right to have them there in court in order to provide evidence on your behalf! MISTRIAL!
3 Steele’s silenced witness George Papcun wasn’t just a highly-credentialed audio expert witness who was prepared to testify that the recordings were tampered with throughout. GEORGE PAPCUN IS THE **CREATOR** OF COMPUTERIZED DIGITAL VOICE MORPHING TECHNOLOGY (in a Los Alamos laboratory in 1999). He defended himself against claims that he faked the 9/11/2001 cell phone calls from doomed airplanes:
George Papcun, creator of voice morphing technology
voicemorphing – 911 guide
http://sites.google.com/site/911guide/voicemorphing
QUOTE: I originally developed the technology of voice morphing, the technology by which it is possible to make someone seem to say something they did not say (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin020199.htm) and coined the phrase. Therefore, I know what would have been required to create such bogus calls. Practical considerations preclude making counterfeit telephone calls in this situation. END QUOTE
He evidently did not explain his findings very well to Steele, because Steele (about 66 now in 2012, with a brilliant and capable mind) referred to copious ‘dubbing, splicing and editing’ of the recordings. That language belongs to the bygone era of magnetic tape recordings. When Larry Fairfax the handyman was wired and the FBI or whoever was listening in and making a recording, it is 99.99% certain that the ‘original’ recording they made from the wired-in signal was digital, not analog (on tape) … digital audio being the form of recording of which Papcun is the undisputed worldwide master.
It was perfectly safe for Papcun and his colleague to reveal all manner of irregularities in the recording(s), because that information would never be entered at trial and therefore it wouldn’t matter. It would be even more agonizing for Steele to know that he had been ‘so close, and yet so far.’ That is psychological torture.
4. When the original wired sound (not yet recorded) was uploaded into a computer file, it’s extremely likely that the sound went straight into an audio program such as the FREE audio software Audacity. That original digital track could then be fed through one of the two currently most popular voice morphing programs like AV Voice Changer Software Diamond 7.0, which contains the capability of Voice Parody.
When set to 100% of a Target Voice, you (the Source Voice) can speak IN THE VOICE of that Target as though you are that person. This technology was first made viable in 1999 by George Papcun himself.
It is possible to hear ‘artefacts’ in the doctored-up version (little clicks or extraneous sounds and voices, lowered volume that attempts to disguise anomalies, etc.). Even when the Target Voice’s intonation and style are ‘cloned,’ a keen ear habituated to the real person can detect the subtle differences in sound resonance, vocabulary and inflection.
5. Go to the following url for a tutorial on creating ‘Parody Voices’ using AV Voice Changer Software.
Click on Step 3 and you will find this obscure sentence:
‘- You can totally mimic someone’s voice by moving the cursor to the edge of the table like in Fig 4.’ [i.e., set the Parody Voice to be 100% similar to the Target Voice]
http://support.audio4fun.com/av-voice-changer-software/diamond-edition/1-tutorial/59-how-to-create-parody-voices-with-voice-changer-software-diamond
6. An Audacity .aup file can instantly be converted within Audacity into an .mp3 file (the most common format for listening). Then it’s a snap to drag the file onto iTunes or your Windows Media Player and ‘burn it’ (copy it) onto a CD or DVD.
7. It seems that the authorities were counting on Edgar Steele’s unfamiliarity with all this rather user-friendly technology, which has been around for OVER 13 YEARS NOW, especially at his age and since fooling around with music and games is not how lawyers (even brilliant ones) generally amuse themselves.
6. Wasn’t Edgar Steele denied several rights that he is guaranteed under the Bill of Rights? Pick these apart:
Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the places to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
…..[Was this done properly?]
Fifth Amendment: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, … nor shall any person be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; …
…..[If the judicial process was not ‘duly’ carried out according to the law, can it be called ‘due process of law?’]
Sixth Amendment: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, … to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.
…..[Two states were involved according to the charges. Maybe the other state would have had a fairer judicial system. Did Larry Fairfax confront Edgar Steele in court? The right to subpoena favorable witnesses was exercised but was blocked by the judge. Since all the money was bled from Steele’s supporters this time around, he will have nothing left on the next round. The draining of financial resources in order to crush a victim or opponent has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with winning through collapse triggered by the timely pulling of judicial strings. Financial crushing amounts to robbery in order to weaken the accused. It should be a crime for a judge to do that.]
8. After this case is overturned, Judge Winmill should be disbarred for his unethical, unconstitutional and criminal behaviors, and for acting out of spite and retaliation against a citizen’s exercise of free speech.
9. When Edgar Steele gets out of jail, he should sue the State for a huge sum of money for his emotional and psychological distress, for unconstitutional legal procedures, for wrongful imprisonment, for the inducement and exacerbation of medical conditions, for lost income, and for loss of consort.
2012 February 25
by admin
(The following info was submitted for posting here, to update supporters and observers.)
The transcripts of all prior hearings were ordered and have been filed with the trial court. Other deadlines are approaching (see below).
An appellate attorney has been engaged for Edgar. An appeal will be filed within the time period provided. The appellate dates are as follows:
Wed., April 4, 2012, Appellant’s opening brief and excerpts of record are due.
Fri., May 4, 2012, Appellee’s (Govt’s) answering brief and excerpts of record are due.
An optional reply brief would be due within 14 days after appellee’s brief is served. For good cause, the above dates are subject to modification.
Little Scholar permalink
March 15, 2012
1. A different strategy: go after FBI Agent Sotka and Judge Winmill. Sue them both. ALL of the evidence against them is in the court records.
Instead of an appeal, first enter a lawsuit against FBI Agent Sotka, who destroyed the original recordings and thereby obstructed justice.
Having won this point if possible, then go back and get the conviction overturned by declaring a MISTRIAL.
The recordings introduced as evidence by FBI Agent Sotka weren’t the originals, they were copies. Originals are required at trial, not copies. Can’t a MISTRIAL be declared on this basis alone? Since the entire premise of the prosecution was based on the audio recordings (as corroboration of what Larry Fairfax claimed), that means the central point in the prosecution’s case was, in effect, unsubstantiated. Go for a MISTRIAL, not an appeal! Am I wrong here?
2. Was George Papcun’s testimony intentionally made impossible because he was the Ace-In-The-Hole for Edgar Steele (see below)? A trip to Tahiti within two days … planned and paid for far in advance? A coincidence? Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill wouldn’t accommodate the availability of the witness for a man accused of a serious felony? A violation of the 6th Amendment of the Bill of Rights? A $120,000 chartered jet was required to fly the witness in from his vacation?? The jet company backed out at the last minute … a coincidence? A harrowing experience for Steele, driving up his cortisol to destructive levels? Physical torture through psychological means.
The judge’s refusal to accommodate that vacation constitutes SILENCING OF A WITNESS by the Court. It doesn’t help to be able to subpoena a witness if the witness has a major conflict and the judge won’t budge. Isn’t that ‘witness tampering?’ The 6th Amendment doesn’t just give you the right to subpoena witnesses or documents, it gives you the right to have them there in court in order to provide evidence on your behalf! MISTRIAL!
3 Steele’s silenced witness George Papcun wasn’t just a highly-credentialed audio expert witness who was prepared to testify that the recordings were tampered with throughout. GEORGE PAPCUN IS THE **CREATOR** OF COMPUTERIZED DIGITAL VOICE MORPHING TECHNOLOGY (in a Los Alamos laboratory in 1999). He defended himself against claims that he faked the 9/11/2001 cell phone calls from doomed airplanes:
George Papcun, creator of voice morphing technology
voicemorphing – 911 guide
http://sites.google.com/site/911guide/voicemorphing
QUOTE: I originally developed the technology of voice morphing, the technology by which it is possible to make someone seem to say something they did not say (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin020199.htm) and coined the phrase. Therefore, I know what would have been required to create such bogus calls. Practical considerations preclude making counterfeit telephone calls in this situation. END QUOTE
He evidently did not explain his findings very well to Steele, because Steele (about 66 now in 2012, with a brilliant and capable mind) referred to copious ‘dubbing, splicing and editing’ of the recordings. That language belongs to the bygone era of magnetic tape recordings. When Larry Fairfax the handyman was wired and the FBI or whoever was listening in and making a recording, it is 99.99% certain that the ‘original’ recording they made from the wired-in signal was digital, not analog (on tape) … digital audio being the form of recording of which Papcun is the undisputed worldwide master.
It was perfectly safe for Papcun and his colleague to reveal all manner of irregularities in the recording(s), because that information would never be entered at trial and therefore it wouldn’t matter. It would be even more agonizing for Steele to know that he had been ‘so close, and yet so far.’ That is psychological torture.
4. When the original wired sound (not yet recorded) was uploaded into a computer file, it’s extremely likely that the sound went straight into an audio program such as the FREE audio software Audacity. That original digital track could then be fed through one of the two currently most popular voice morphing programs like AV Voice Changer Software Diamond 7.0, which contains the capability of Voice Parody.
When set to 100% of a Target Voice, you (the Source Voice) can speak IN THE VOICE of that Target as though you are that person. This technology was first made viable in 1999 by George Papcun himself.
It is possible to hear ‘artefacts’ in the doctored-up version (little clicks or extraneous sounds and voices, lowered volume that attempts to disguise anomalies, etc.). Even when the Target Voice’s intonation and style are ‘cloned,’ a keen ear habituated to the real person can detect the subtle differences in sound resonance, vocabulary and inflection.
5. Go to the following url for a tutorial on creating ‘Parody Voices’ using AV Voice Changer Software.
Click on Step 3 and you will find this obscure sentence:
‘- You can totally mimic someone’s voice by moving the cursor to the edge of the table like in Fig 4.’ [i.e., set the Parody Voice to be 100% similar to the Target Voice]
http://support.audio4fun.com/av-voice-changer-software/diamond-edition/1-tutorial/59-how-to-create-parody-voices-with-voice-changer-software-diamond
6. An Audacity .aup file can instantly be converted within Audacity into an .mp3 file (the most common format for listening). Then it’s a snap to drag the file onto iTunes or your Windows Media Player and ‘burn it’ (copy it) onto a CD or DVD.
7. It seems that the authorities were counting on Edgar Steele’s unfamiliarity with all this rather user-friendly technology, which has been around for OVER 13 YEARS NOW, especially at his age and since fooling around with music and games is not how lawyers (even brilliant ones) generally amuse themselves.
6. Wasn’t Edgar Steele denied several rights that he is guaranteed under the Bill of Rights? Pick these apart:
Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the places to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
…..[Was this done properly?]
Fifth Amendment: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, … nor shall any person be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; …
…..[If the judicial process was not ‘duly’ carried out according to the law, can it be called ‘due process of law?’]
Sixth Amendment: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, … to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.
…..[Two states were involved according to the charges. Maybe the other state would have had a fairer judicial system. Did Larry Fairfax confront Edgar Steele in court? The right to subpoena favorable witnesses was exercised but was blocked by the judge. Since all the money was bled from Steele’s supporters this time around, he will have nothing left on the next round. The draining of financial resources in order to crush a victim or opponent has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with winning through collapse triggered by the timely pulling of judicial strings. Financial crushing amounts to robbery in order to weaken the accused. It should be a crime for a judge to do that.]
8. After this case is overturned, Judge Winmill should be disbarred for his unethical, unconstitutional and criminal behaviors, and for acting out of spite and retaliation against a citizen’s exercise of free speech.
9. When Edgar Steele gets out of jail, he should sue the State for a huge sum of money for his emotional and psychological distress, for unconstitutional legal procedures, for wrongful imprisonment, for the inducement and exacerbation of medical conditions, for lost income, and for loss of consort.