[darbymcgill]

He knows what's on the phone because the cops told him verbally. Whatever is there is helpful to the defense or else he would have requested a written report of the contents, since all such reports are subject to discovery.

Another interesting comment by Nifong...

When the judge asked him something about if the phone was to be used as evidence, his reply was "not the contents of the phone, but the fact that it was found at the house shows she was there and corroborates her statement"... or something to that effect..

How could he possibly say that w/o knowing what was on the phone? If something on the phone helped his case, why would he tell the judge he didn't plan to use it?

Oooops....

[Jezebelle]

I heard that, too, and so did defense counsel, obviously, because he began to press even harder for the review. What will be interesting is whether the defense expert turns up any indication that anything was overtly deleted after the cops took custody of the phone.

But, yeah, Nifong was almost comical in his obvious dismissal of a plan to use any info from the phone. Most likely there's something there that does not help him back the timeline up to 11:30ish like he'd like to do. What a hideous excuse for a prosecutor. I think he's been chasing parking tickets or whatever petty assignment it was that he did for the five years before he became DA while he had cancer so long he has no clue as to how ridiculous a figure he is in the context of a serious case. And the idiots who voted for him look even stupider.