Word: tosi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earlier cases involving voiceprints came before courts in New Jersey (1967) and California (1968), and both times the appeals courts rejected the device as unreliable. Among the experts who opposed voiceprints at the time was Oscar Tosi, a professor of audiology at Michigan State; since then, however, Tosi has compared some 34,000 voiceprints under a $300,000 grant from the Justice Department, and the evidence has convinced him. In the case of Caroline Trimble, he testified in favor of voiceprint evidence, and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Oscar Knutson agreed with...