6. VIDEO AND DISCOVERY IN SEMINOLE - 2017, 2018, 2019 For years, Mandi's parents kept asking her lawyers "What about this video with no timestamps? Can they really get away with that?" Mandi's attorney kept telling them don't worry, they would get the real video. It came out in depositions that Scott Love's attorney, Michael Nielsen, requested to do some kind of viewing, of some of the evidence police had from the Lofts. I got confused and thought this might mean he saw all the Lofts video, not just the few clips they provided without timestamps. Nielsen went to a police station or something, and he may have been able to see additional video stored on a hard drive or something. I am unable to find any record of this today, so he may have just been looking at the gloves not the video, and I misunderstood. I say "or something" because this was all back-channel. Nielsen could lose the notes, or maybe he didn't take notes, and nobody would ever know it happened. And Nielsen would be happy to lose the notes, if he wanted to confirm the additional video of his client Scott Love leaving, or wandering around the different floors of the Lofts, really had been deleted. If Nielsen was satisfied the missing video had been deleted, then he no longer had to worry about being surprised by it. And neither he nor the police have any incentive to ever speak about it. Mandi's attomeys were a little curious about the missing video and altered timestamps. It came out in a deposition of Alison Smolarek, that the hard drive with the Lofts video was described to Mandi's attorneys as "lost" at some point. I don’t know when they asked to see it, maybe after Scott Love's trial when the deleted clips of Scott Love were no longer relevant. At deposition, ASPD video expert Athaide made contradictory statements about how the Epiphan video-grab tool was just a screen recorder of another running system, which could nevertheless be used on a freestanding hard drive. And Athaide didn't know why the timestamps were missing in the first set of video clips. I guess Mandi's attorneys are not made of money. They have families, mortgages, and other cases. So they were also happy to proceed with the altered video. It made their defense simpler. And because this was all back-channel, there was no public record of how they discovered the Video was altered and deleted. And they have no incentive to ever speak about it. You know from me writing this, there was one person who actually wanted the real Lofts video. I copied Judge Reckseidler’s assistant Vanessa Lau on some of my emails. I can only infer, my emails resulted in some more back- channel activity, off the public record. Recksiedler then spoke a few brief words at a pre-trial hearing around December 2018, something to the effect that the sketchy video had been verified, so she would allow it at Love's trial. The result of the back-channel request from Judge Recksiedler or however it came about, was Athaide made a new set of video clips right before Love's trial, supposedly from the hard drive they said was lost. And he got Lofts manager Michelle Ervin, who was a party to altering the original timestamps, and also a Mulrenin associate, to sign the disk as authentic. But this did not come out until months later, after I noticed the video at Scott Love’s trial was different from anything I had seen. Athaide later admitted at deposition, he made a new set of clips for Love's trial, which State Attorney Stewart Stone never provided to Love or Jackson's attorneys. In fact, it was only ever spoken or admitted one time that I know of, by any member of The Florida Bar or ASPD, that the video had been altered. That was a whisper in the back of courtroom 5D, around Wednesday of Scott Love’s trial. I had just been stunned to see video shown to Scott Love's jury, that was new, that had I never seen before. When I saw the dog walker let Love in the freight door, and Athaide admitted the timestamps were off seven minutes, I suddenly realized the dog walker in the garage was the same one at the freight door, and Love probably came in 7 minutes later when Jackson was in the garage. It was actually way more than 7 minutes later, but I had only just seen this for the first time. My first guess was that everything but Scott arriving was changed 7 minutes later. Mandi's attorney Carrie Rentz had other business in the courthouse, and stepped into the courtroom briefly, to see what was going on in Love’s trial. I assumed this new video with the dog walker had been disclosed to the her, and I was the only one left out of the loop. So I ran up to her excited, and I mentioned how the new video showed the dog III - 28