11. VIDEO TIMELINE IMPOSSIBLE If you believe Michelle Ervin, it is not even possible that Love entered and went to the fifth floor before Jackson and Mulrenin, as police claim in their video. Michelle Ervin was the Lofts manager. She had been looking at those security cameras, and selling that north-facing lake view from the fifth floor, for 13 years, beginning before the building first opened. She claimed under oath to recognize every part of the building on video, by artwork alone. She put that artwork there. Michelle Ervin said Jackson and Mulrenin parked on the northeast corner and walked all the way around to Mulrenin's apartment, because parking is not reserved and the garage is fiill at night. Athaide claimed to walk the building to see where the cameras are, before writing his report. Sprague and Athaide, in their reports and affidavits, said Jackson and Mulrenin parked and passed by the same southwest comer of the garage where Love entered. Sprague and Athaide either lied or got it completely wrong, when they said Love hid in the same elevator where Mulrenin passed by. Athaide claimed the hallway artwork which was not visible in the garage, proved Jackson's car was in the same comer when it is seen passing through the garage. There are some video screen grabs from both locations, in the hand-typed timestamp files, that have timestamp and location labels at the top. The video with the freight elevator and hall artwork where Love waits is labeled elevator A. The video in the garage where Jackson parks, and she and Mulrenin pass by on their way into the building, is labeled elevator B, a different comer of the building. In 13 years, how many people do you think Michelle Ervin has caught taking unregistered pets down those elevators? How many unapproved roommates? Do you think she doesn't know what comer of the building those people are coming from, what elevators those labels represent? Maybe when Athaide changed the Video times, he added the wrong fake video labels, and confused Michelle ErVin as to what Video camera the clips came from. Maybe that is the reason someone spent great labor, to delete the timestamps and location labels, from the original 18 clips provided to the defense. Michelle Ervin also said Jackson and Mulrenin parked on the fourth floor, not the fifth floor where Love waited. According to Van Cleave, when Mulrenin came home he parked on the second floor, before walking down the ramp to try to meet Jackson. Even though Mulrenin lives on the fifth floor. Parking is so hard to find at 4:30 AM when everyone else is home, that both the manager and a long-time resident think it makes sense to park on a different floor from the one you want to get to. To me it looks like Mulrenin's car is on the first floor. But what are we do to, just admit half of what every cop says is wrong? In any case, it is not the fifth floor where he lives. If parking is that hard to find, what are the odds that Jackson and Mulrenin actually found parking on the same floor and comer as Mulrenin's apartment, as claimed by Sprague and Athaide? Even if there were a spot there, what are the chances they would drive up five floors and two comers, without seeing another spot first? Remember Mulrenin is an impatient man, who leaves work in a hurry according to Carico, pushes the elevator button eight times even after the door is already closing, and rushes around kicking trash. And both Mulrenin and Ervin think it makes sense to park on a lower floor if that is the first spot you find. Let's suppose the chance of there being an open spot in any particular floor-comer is l in 4, making parking "hard to find." The chance of Jackson and Mulrenin finding a spot in Mulrenin's floor and comer is l in 4. They have to pass by at least 16 comers to get there. So they will pass by at least four other empty spots in hopes of that l in 4 chance. If the chance of an open spot in a particular comer is l in 2 which seems easier than Ervin thinks, they will pass up 8 empty spots in hopes of a 50/50 chance of parking right by Mulrenin's apartment. If parking were that easy, Mulrenin would pass by two empty spots, to park on the second floor when he got home. Michelle Ervin has been looking at those cameras for 13 years. And her sworn testimony checks for consistency with the predictions of basic math. What she is saying makes sense, it adds up. Surely Love is motivated by some event to get on the elevator and wait. He claimed in his testimony that he was III - 39