Reply #248: Does it really matter

[BrownOak]

I'm happy to dig the stuff up for you, but all it means is that rather than doubting my word (or my friend's) it just means you'll have to doubt the word of the reporter or the defense attorney. But, since you asked:

I've read the ABC article, and all that article states is that ABC News was shown a single ATM receipt from 12:25.

We may have read different ABC News articles. I'm going with this one:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LegalCenter/story?id=1858806&...

Among the highlights:

*By 12:24 a.m., a receipt reviewed by ABC indicates that Seligmann's ATM card was used at a nearby Wachovia bank.
*In a written statement to the defense also reviewed by ABC, a cabdriver confirms picking up Seligmann and a friend a block and a half from the party, and driving them to the bank.
*By 12:25 a.m., he was making a phone call to a girlfriend out of state.
*The taxi driver remembers taking him to a drive-thru fast-food restaurant and then dropping him off at his dorm. Duke University records show that Seligmann's card was used to gain entry at 12:46 a.m.
*Within those same minutes , phone bill records reviewed by ABC show that the defendant's cell phone made at least two outgoing calls.

If you can find an article about when these phone calls, etc., were placed, I'd like to see them; but I'm not going to go by what somebody's friend says they heard.

Well, this article http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=4... talks about the call to the taxi company.

*A person close to the case told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the cell phone records show Seligmann called for a taxi at 12:14 a.m., and that according to sworn testimony he left in the taxi at 12:19 a.m.

Now, we all know that the "person close to the case" is someone with the defense team so you can discount that if you like, but it does conform to the information stated in the ABC article where they said they reviewed the phone records.

I don't have the article with the 12:07 call, but I'll see what I can find.