there is no way for her to know there is money in a boot box in a closet at an address she has never been to. But the prosecution made a great effort to present Mulrenin's apartment as being like a bank branch, by showing some money which police found hidden in a boot box in his closet, and hiding everything else. So there was no alternate reason to be there, the address had only cash, the address equaled cash. It was like a board game with a square called "cash" on the board. The prosecution showed the money which police found in Mulrenin's closet, even though its existence can be taken as proof Scott and Mandi had no idea it was there. The defense then tried to show some marijuana, and other things that were right in Murenin’s kitchen. The prosecution objected, and the judge wouldn’t let them show it. The defense pointed out the judge already let them show money hidden in a closet that obviously nobody knew about. The judge said well, you could have objected. The few photos the jurors saw from inside Mulrenin's apartment were small and blurry. So the jurors had pretty much no idea what was in Mulrenin's apartment or what it even looked like, what the layout was or what went on there. All they knew is that it had money in it. In reality it was a drug den filled with needles and Viagra. But it was presented to the jury as an antiseptic bank branch, somehow known, but not known, to have money in it. So the jury saw some irrelevant cash which it is certain Mandi had no idea was in Mulrenin's apartment. And the jury never saw the actual motive for Mandi being there, to smoke weed. But Scott Love's jury was still skeptical of the B movie plot, because they knew the prosecution wasn’t telling them the real story about what happened with the girl and the boss and her boyfriend. The idea that Mandi went home with her boss to commit an armed robbery at his apartment while drinking vodka, and shoot him and tie him up in duct tape with all the neighbors watching and listening, and Scott wore booties like "Mission Impossible," was outlandish. It was like a paranoid fantasy. And Prosecutor Stone came across like a crazy hallucinating person, which he is. He actually hallucinates guilt whether it is there or not, I have seen in many cases. But it made the jurors desperately hungry to know what really happened. So when Smolarek went up there with what should have been a simple lie, that she found bloody gloves in Mandi's car with Scott's DNA on the inside, the jury didn't immediately swallow it. It wasn’t the inside-outside "wearer DNA" thing where the gloves could be inside out. They probably accepted that Smolarek knew what was the inside. It wasn’t even that the gloves were found in two different groups. The jurors did not have clear photographs to see that. It probably wasn’t that there were only stains on some of the gloves. All it was, is the jurors were puzzled why there were five gloves and two DNA swabs, and from that Smolarek said Scott was the wearer, and Mulrenin's blood was on the outside. When the DNA expert went on the stand, the jurors revealed their confusion about which swab came from which glove, and why exactly, and what the fuck? Unlike Smolarek, the jurors had a genuine curiosity what happened that night. So the prosecution recalled Smolarek as a witness, to clarify what DNA swab came from what glove. And Scott’s lawyer objected to calling Smolarek back, and he was miserable through it because he knew it was a scam. He said something like "Come on, these gloves are not even the same color." And Smolarek came back on the stand, and she lied, as I have detailed elsewhere. But that was pretty much the end of the prosecution's presentation, Smolarek saying that all the gloves were in one ball and Scott’s DNA was on the inside, and Mulrenin's blood was on the outside. Up until then, there was no proof Scott was even in the apartment. And the robbery narrative was outlandish. But now the defense was faced with a total scam, and no good idea how to deal with it. So they made the absolutely disastrous decision to put Scott up there and say some even more ridiculous story to explain the fake evidence. Scott said they got into an argument, and Mulrenin was shot in the leg by accident with his own gun. Which could very well be true. After 4,000 hours looking at the evidence and testimony in this case, I cannot disprove that story. Scott said he then went out of there with Mulrenin's blood on his hands from the scuffle, and transferred it to the handle bars of his motorcycle which he used to arrive separately from Mandi. If Scott did arrive on a motorcycle, the dog walker at the freight door would have seen it. I do know the existence of that dog walker was concealed by police. IV-42