-----The neighbor publicly making the remarks that I cited is a much more substantial report, which is not to say that it is the last word or that the guy on FOX might not have it right.-----
Perhaps.
The neighbor strikes me as a bit of a publicity whore...I could be wrong...he seems to see this as an opportunity of grandeur, to "be somebody"...even some of his statements are inconsistent with everyone else's. He also seems like he has an axe to grind with the lacrosse players.
My gut feeling is...he will ultimately be inconsequential as a witness.
Except on one point: He has said that he heard the AV say "I've got to go back and get my shoe."
His testimony as to when he heard that will be absolutely crucial for the defense.
Not a way in the world will anyone believe that that woman was beaten, strangled, raped and sodomized and AFTER that went back in to where her attackers were to get her shoe back.
So that single statement overheard by Bissey establishes that the rape could not possibly have occurred before that point in time, whenever that point was.
I disagree. In general his statements have been fairly consistent with the events as they planed out.. Think about how you would respond to seeing what he saw 3 or 4 days later. Especially if it was something you had seen similarly before.
I don't think the fact that he has them arriving together is that big a deal... He saw them go to the house 11:50 ish and enter the back door at 12:00 ish... Wonder what they were doing on the back porch or yard for 10 minutes... Could that be the interval for which the AV drank 1 and a half mixed drinks... Surely she wasn't drinking while dancing for 4 or 10 minutes... And surely she wasn't drinking while in the BR being raped...
He sees the girls go to the car together and hears one of them say she forgot her shoe.... He hears the boys argue about the $100, I think that's important... And he verifies that something scared the boys off when he hears them leaving...
Although obviously in it for his 15 minutes, I give him fairly high marks for remembering quite a lot..