Coast Guard Detains Uncooperative Boater After Chase On SF Bay

[SVNeko]

Originally Posted by MarkSF

If you look at the amount of teak on that boat, it's quite clear to me that he had been driven crazy by varnish fumes. I'm getting that way myself.

Bingo!!

[westsailwill]

Originally Posted by roverhi

Hhhmmmm, NZ and Irish Passport. Strange that the CG would easily connect his voice with the voice that was making the false Maydays. This guy is really really really STUPID if he is making false Mayday calls with an identifiable accent.

As if the false maydays alone don't make him really stupid?

[Group9]

Originally Posted by Rakuflames

That wasn't a reference about points of law. A big issue in the Zimmerman trial was that although there was a voice in the 911 tape, the voice could not be identified. Just because a voice is recorded does not automatically mean it can be identified.

It can be identified. Fabio Ochoa wouldn't be serving 40 years in federal prison right now if it couldn't be. But, it's not cheap, so you don't see many state jurisdictions bothering with it. But, the Coast Guard cases are prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office and they have forensic resources you probably wouldn't' believe.

Sometimes it's good, and sometimes it's bad, but cost is rarely a consideration in the federal government's criminal justice decisions.