MALETTA: Mandi went to Rachel's to meet the manager and rob him. Mulrenin had not been the manager at Rachel's since like 2001, when he was famously arrested for racketeering and prostitution. He was the manager at Rachel's North primarily from 2010 to 2012. All that was available in Google if you searched for Mandi's case, and then searched the victim's name, James Mulrenin. Back in 2017 when Maletta came up with her story, Rachel's was the main strip club name that was in Google for James Mulrenin. For his racketeering and prostitution, that he was known for. But if you talked to Mandi instead of talking to Google, she would have told you Mulrenin was the manager of Stars and Dollhouse. Unless Mandi somehow knew Mulrenin primarily from when she worked at Rachel's for an extended period the previous summer. But if that is the case, then she already knew Mulrenin, and this idea the other jailhouse witnesses tell, that she came in as a stranger and Mulrenin liked her on the first night he met her, would be false. MALETTA: They beat Mulrenin up. Mulrenin went down five floors in the dark, hit a railing with his legs hard enough to bend it, smacked his head into a wall, and landed on the ground below. One of the other jailhouse witnesses said Mandi confessed to somehow seeing Mulrenin hit his head on the railing, five stories below in the dark, despite original witnesses saying Mulrenin's balcony was clearly lit and he was alone. Through all that, the only spot on Mulrenin's whole body that had no marks, was his face. You and I know when people beat someone up, that means you punch him in the face. Maletta knows that too. Maletta’s victim had lacerations, a broken nose, and a possible fractured jaw, from being struck in the face with hands and feet. You think 100-pound Mandi is going to beat up 250-pound Mulrenin with body blows? You think Scott Love holding a gun is going to punch Mulrenin in the stomach to get him to comply? No. But Mulrenin's face was not marked. Under the law, "assault" is just threatening someone. Most people don’t know the legal term for actually striking someone is not assault, it is "battery." That's what Maletta Young did to her home-invasion victim. Maletta looked Mandi up on the clerk website, and saw Mandi was charged with "burglary of a dwelling with an assault or battery." So Maletta just assumed Mandi did the same thing Maletta did in her "aggravated battery" case. Both Mandi's charges and Maletta’s charges included the word "battery," And Maletta’s victim was beat up. And Maletta assumes assault means beating someone up. But James Mulrenin was not beat up. Maletta made a rookie mistake, after reading Mandi's charge on the Seminole Clerk website and comparing it to her own. MALETTA: Mandi had done the same thing with her boyfriend in the past, where "she used to go down and get johns and he would come in and rob them." Did Mandi leave those johns a resume with her name on it? Mulrenin was not a john. He was her boss. He was a pimp. He was in her same social circle. He had her real name, and her father’s real name and phone number as her emergency contact, on a job application. Did Mandi tell Maletta why cell tower pings had her at Mulrenin's house four times just that week? There are many common traits of strip club managers. They are aggressive and strict with the girls. Robbing a strip club manager would be like pickpocketing a bank robber. Hookers steal watches from fat drunk guys from Minneapolis, passed out in $400 hotel rooms. Hookers do not steal from pimps. Mandi has been robbed by drug dealers and pimps, and she would not expect to be able to rob one easily. You would think if Scott had been sticking a gun in guy's faces to get more than the standard $250 hooker fee, he might have been able to afford his own phone to at least coordinate when to come in. I wish Mandi had robbed some johns, instead of trying to be nice to people in Seminole County. IV-l9