A few days back I posted about the cell phone Mangum apparently had at the party. I said I thought summed up the case in a nutshell, making points like:
1. Mangum dropped it when she fell and did not get it back.
2. The police did not investigate it.
3. The DA is completely uninterested in it.
4. The defense not knowing what is on it wants it perserved. [This to me is most telling that nothing happened. If something happened they would not dare seek to get evidence from a cell phone one of the players did not have under his control.]
Well tonight I watched the first setting hearing for the first time. A link to a CourtTV file of it follows:
http://release.theplatform.com/content.select?pid=xDpiiRI2jJQ1hKhActHbd99eW-vKCJL7&UserName=Unknown
The phone came up and let me add a 5th point of how it is this case in a nutshell:
5. The judge is very concerned about the cell phone. He mentioned that it might be owned by someone else and that would raise third party AND FOURTH PARTY concerns. The judge is clearly with his FOURTH PARTY remark worried about whose number might be on that cell phone. He order the phone information not be released until it can be viewed "in camera."
In reference to Alia's comments on Murky Durham and JLS, fourth party privacy concerns on Crystal's phone:
Don't forget Baker is a 38 year old civil servant driving a Ranger Rover and his wife doesn't work.
Just like many knew it would eventually come out that the AV was committing other crimes (like prostitution, underreporting on her taxes, etc.) I think, if we are lucky, other corruption in the Durham Power hierarchy will be uncovered during this trail too.