ok, so i've got the audio, and i'm still analyzing it, but i'm convinced it's been edited. people have imperfect memories, but there's certain things you remember clearly.

i initially only asked for the audio of the release/hearing, but they seemed insistent on giving me the audio of the day the charges were dropped, as well, so i bit. see, and the weird thing is that they seem to have edited the second day, as well, and in a way that is much more obvious - they seem to have cut an entire segment out of the audio, and i suspect that they even recorded over a part of it, then tried to hide the cut with an out of place gavel hit. while my memory is not aligning well with the audio for the first day, i can't pull out any obvious editing; the second day is a much less professional job, that could be potentially incriminating.

the thing is that i don't even know why they'd do that, but it suggests a deeper level of complicity, nonetheless.

they released it in the form of a pdf document, and you're supposed to listen to little segments of it, along with the court notes - but i was able to pull a continuous recording out of the temp files. this continuous recording is in wma. but, the documents indicate that the audio was stored in dcr format, which is apparently shockwave audio. i wouldn't imagine that the audio saves directly to dcr...

so, it seems like i'm going to have to go back and make a formal motion for the actual audio. i'm just not sure if i should call the rcmp or not, first.