Ah, good! One by one, the regulars are getting the word! This will be great if true!! How can he explain his fingerprints on the sticky side of the tape, unless it was he who taped something with it?!
Anse, you know better than I how defense lawyers work. MG will explain to the jury that SP has already admitted taking the umbrellas (maybe covered with his pool tarp with tape wrapped around them), to the warehouse. When he left the warehouse, he took the pool tarp with him to take back home, with some of the tape still pretty much in tact. When he got to the bay, it was raining, so he placed the tarp in the boat for protection of his new boat. At some point, a really big wind blew the tarp off. Something along those lines, and unless there is Laci DNA on the tarp, it would not necessarily prove anything except that the tarp and tape belonged to Scott.
Do you buy that? I really don't, but I can imagine that MG could make an argument convincing enough that at least one juror would.