The defense is entitled to it, period (under FL rules of Criminal Procedure), regardless of whether or not the state has any plan or intention to use, refer to, or produce the audio at trial.
I'd have to research, but I think that the general rule, aside from FL open discovery, is that the state can sandbag defendant, that is, produce inculpatory evidence for the first time, at trial. This isn't generally done, but it's not a violation.
-- ... one of my professors gave an MSNBC recount of the Zimmerman incident ... --
I got out of law school in 1998. 80% of the class was liberal, 40% was "Guild level liberal," and you'll figure out what that means, in due course. The professors were mostly liberal too - but get them off the political schtick, they are there to give you an education, not an indoctrination. I used to have fun showing them how the casebooks erred, typically by omission. Spend lots of time reading cases - the whole thing, not the excerpts assigned. Usually, but not always, the casebook does a great job of excerpting. Oh, it is also illuminating to read the trial case material, sometimes. You may be disappointed to learn that appellate judges are agenda driven, and prone to cherry-pick, etc.
If you stick with it, and apply yourself, the law school experience will work a profound change in the way you view the world - and in a way that will certainly be good for you, personally. Better to know how things really work, than to adhere to some false impression.
Thank you for the advice. I’d at a more conservative school I think, at least relative to other law schools, so I’ve actually made a couple good friends already who are conservative like me (just nowhere near as right).
My teachers actually haven’t been too bad with the liberal slant in any of my classes. Now and then, a teacher will throw in a jab at Scalia, or recant the bogus version of the Zimmerman incident. Overall, they actually do a pretty good job of keeping their politic viewpoints out of the classroom, but like I said, it’s probably because my school leans conservative.
I’m constantly annoyed by the NLG and their attempt to present themselves as a partisan group. From what I’ve researched, the NLG was named by McCarthy as a full-blown communist group, and don’t think they’ve really ever changed their ways.
During the election season, they were posting nonsense to our class’s Facebook page in search of election monitors due to “conservative suppression of the vote.”
Sorry, for going off-topic.