>Yes, that's similar to my thinking that this may not be worth much, if anything, to the defense. Because, if it were, I would expect that at least one of the defense lawyers would be using it to beat Nifong senseless, yet again<
It sure does narrow down the window of time that can be allowed for 3 guys to rape this woman. One of the accused, I believe it is Reade, is on videotape somewhere else at 12:24 so he wasn't at the party when she made this call. The photographs taken of the girls dancing are time stamped sometime after midnight but before this phone call. What would be interesting to know is what was said during this conversation. If she made no mention of any rape and just asked for a ride home?
What was really interesting about the article was that it mentioned that the phone call was not investigated by the police. Why not?
The phone calls made by the AV, the other dancer and the boys are all critical to the time line I believe. There is alot of documentation for the calls, the photos, the security camera at the ATM machine etc.
Notice that neither the defense or pros. is talking about these phone calls. I think it may be because of the timeline. Nifong knows this rape never occurred. He is hard pressed to come up with a timeframe for which this rape may have occurred. The victim claimed it went on for 30 min.
Okay.. She arrives between 11:40 and midnight. There are photos with the time stamped on them for around midnight. She claims she only danced a few minutes and left the room to go to the bathroom at 12:04. At 12:24 Reade is gone and photographed by a security camera. So that leaves 20 minutes. Between 12:05 and 12:24 Reade made 8 cellphone calls. When did he rape the AV? While talking on the phone? The victim never mentioned any of the accused talking on his cellphone during the rape. The taxi driver picked him up at 12:19 and phone records show he called for the taxi at 12:15. Do most rapists call for a taxi during the crime?
Most of the times I got from the WRAL website that has an interactive section on the case with a timeline.
Finnerty's parents also have stated that phone and dorm records will prove that their son is innocent.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/sports/14945785.htm
The defense has also stated that the timeline and phone records are important to proving their client's innocence but since I believe that this will be crucial to the case they are not going to reveal all of their stratergy. Nifong, on the other hand has not specified a timeframe for when he believes the alleged rape occurred.
The defense has so much going for it between the lack of DNA evidence, the timeline and an AV who would never withstand cross examination (that's if anyone thinks she'll actually ever appear in court).
I would so hate to be the prosecutor in this case.
Sherlockmom
