What does this new tidbit mean, I wonder?
Scott had that launch parking ticket. Does that mean he was one of the three, and that it was simply again unusual to go out on a boat in the bay there at that time of year? (For sturgeon...) (In a tiny boat...)
Or does it mean that he was not one of the three and simply got the parking ticket w/o launching? But we know he launched somewhere.
Also- the boat was too small, and the equipment was wrong to catch the type of fish he was supposedly trying to catch.
Months, maybe a year, ago, I remember reading that there were only a handful of launch tickets sold from the Berkeley Marina during the time period Scott said he was there.
I hadn't realized there were only THREE--I was thinking more like five, for Dec. 24. But this info says only three, for a 4-day period including the 24th.
It means that if Scott did buy a ticket at that parking lot, he sure wouldn't have gotten lost in the crowd. So those witnesses--I think they were city workers eating lunch outdoors--would be far less likely to have been mistaken in the time they say they saw Scott.
If the time they testify to doesn't jibe with what Scott has claimed, it will mess up the defense timeline, and Scott will look like a liar. (!)
If, OTOH, all of those 3 sold launch tickets can be accounted for through their purchasers (and none of the purchasers was Scott), then it will look like Scott simply got hold of a ticket and passed it off as his, when it wasn't his. Once again, Scott comes off as lying.
If he lied about one of the above, then we can all say, as Brent Rocha said, "We are only left to wonder what else he may be hiding (lying about)."