Attorney: New audio reveals pause in gunfire when Michael Brown shot

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3. Actually, I think it might be 11 shots.

And there's something about the circumstantiality of the whole thing that really lends to its credibility.

To be honest, I had real doubts about how someone might just have been taping at the exact moment of the shooting, and might have suspected that the tape was faked by some overeager person, but after hearing it I really don't have much question about its authenticity. The guy just keeps on talking his line to the woman, oblivious to what's going down outside, & the shots are heard over his voice. I think any jury on hearing this would also be convinced that it's real.

One thing about that CNN story, though--they keep referring to "Josie's" story in the same breath as the eyewitness accounts, as if it had the same validity. That's bullshit. Josie was only repeating Wilson's story--sort of a surrogate spokesperson for Wilson, whose lawyers undoubtedly want him clammed up, but still want a good, jury-contaminating alternative story out there. I don't fault the lawyers for the move (if it tracks back to them, as I believe), but I do fault CNN for giving it continued credence.