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Initial accounts are most accurate.

Eyewitness accounts are notoriously less than reliable. If you believe Bissey, you have to believe that the defense is lying because he claims that at least one player knew that they arrived at the same time. Even Nifong has said that they arrived separately, as did Kim. The cabbie believed that he saw the strippers in a white car when clearly Kim's car is dark colored. It is very easy to get memories confused.

http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/434410.html

Police also seemed slow to interview witnesses such as Jason Bissey, who lives next door to the lacrosse house and was on his porch that night.

Shortly after the party cleared out, police arrived to check out complaints about the noise. Bissey was outside and told police there had been a party.

A week passed before Bissey learned from a neighborhood e-mail group that police were investigating a report of a rape at the party. On the morning of March 21, Bissey said, he called Investigator Benjamin Himan at the Durham Police Department and left a message. The next day, Bissey spoke briefly with police. He gave the police a full statement April 1, after his account had already appeared in several national publications.

Nifong believed everything the two women served up from the beginning. Nifong believed they weren't involved with either 911 because they said so.

Nifong has bad judgement is believing these two untrustworthy women. Kim R. would throw her Grandma overboard.

Bissey was right about so many things. His story intersects perfectly with the players and other items that are not in dispute by either side.

Initial accounts are most accurate. And was a good eyewitness on the other issues (fight over money, racial slur, police arriving to empty house, 2 strippers - one dressed provocatively, Strippers coming out and then going back in the house, Stripper saying shoe was left in the house, etc.)

We've never seen a full photo of Kim's car. The photo we do have, which is the one with the passenger's door open and Mangum's leg hanging out, shows a whitish patch to the rear of the open door and peeling paint revealing the very light gray under primer on the roof. It may be that there's a lot more of that light gray on the hood and/or the front fenders, such that somebody who would have no reason to ever think he would need to recall the color may have just perceived it as white, given the reflection of his own headlights. The car may also have a white hood and/or one or both front fenders that are replacements from a wrecking yard. Mostafa, a foreigner with halting English, may not know the names of colors correctly. I have heard people use the Spanish word "blanco" to mean "black" because the words sound similar, but "blanco" is actually Spanish for "white." "Negro" is "black." So Mostafa may have a similar confusion going on between his English and his native tongue.