My point is that if Gray had read further, he would have seen why that has to be Maddie's phone, not the Door Dash driver's.
The self authenticating isn't in regards to explaining the records--it's about how do we prove the records are real. In that filing, we have the legal documents from each of the providers of this information that swear the information is authentic--this should be proof enough. Or, is the defense going to insist that we have to have a representative from AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile (or any of the other items in that list like security footage from Costco, the foodtruck footage, etc) come to the trial, get up on the stand for all of 30 seconds to say swear in and then say, 'Yes, I am Ugga Bugga, I'm the legal records representative for AT&T, and yes, I testify under oath that those records that you are presenting to the court are the true and complete records of those people that we gave to the investigators'?"
If you watched the Murdaugh trial, you saw this. The defense there refused to stipulate to anything, so for every single record being brought in to the trial, the prosecution had to first have a representative from the company come to the trial and say something like what I quoted above. Then SLED agent or other LE could the proceed to testify as to what those records meant.
Things like phone records, security footage from stores, security footage from the 2 apartments that are run by property management companies, those all have to have some form of authentication and that is done by the forms you see in that document. Security footage from some of the nearby homes (that we see listed in the Make and Model document that gives the address and times the car was spotted at, Gray uses that info to make all his videos about mapping BK's path) isn't in this list of 60 things...and that's because that is coming from private citizens not entities with legal custodians of records.
So, ALL phone records have to be authenticated either by these documents or by having a rep from each company come to the trial (which, AT&T will probably have to be ready to come there anyway in case Anne manages to sneak in the argument over the 7 day availability for timing advance records being why they don't have them for BK). That means ANY phone records that are going to be used at trial MUST be on this list.
The only phone records listed in the 60 items are:
Item 5: AT&T for BK, XK, and a MM
Item 45: T-Mobile records for KG, DM
item 51: Verizon records for EC, BF, and JD (KG's ex who both KG and MM were calling/texting before they went to bed)
That means our options for what MM stands for are:
--the MM is Maddie Mogen....which means that we have listed the phone records of the accused, all 5 roommates, Ethan, and KG's ex JD (and his are in because MM & KG were both calling and texting him that night).
--or the MM is the Doordash driver, which means that since there is no other phone record listed in that court filing that is phone records for another MM, Maddie's phone records aren't being used at trial
Number 2 seems EXTREMELY unlikely. Maddie's phone records are far more important than the Doordash driver's---esp since the DD driver's communications are going to be going through the app, not her personal texts, and will come in that way (Door Dash's records are item 16).
As long as the defense accepts these certificates of authenticity, we can cut right to the chase during trial and FBI Agent Ballance can then begin his testimony explaining them.
Further proof outside of the document Gray is talking about:
"FBI Special Agent Ballance was primarily involved in the analysis ofc ell phone records in the investigation. He is disclosed to testify in the State's case-in-chief about his analysis of AT&T cell phone records for Defendant, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle, as well as his own drive testing measurements to determine the use and general location of their cell phones between June 2022 and November 2022."