Adam Mihalcin

Mock Trial

1/30/08

Direct of Shae

-If anything about $1 million extortion charge, object because only convictions and not arrests are admissible into evidence.

Cross of Shae Reynolds

Let’s move to the morning in question. You got the call at 10:30am, didn’t you?

-Yes

- lines 10-11

And in that call you learned that Kiran Taufique was missing?

-Yes

Yet Kiran’s safety was so important that you waited until almost 1:00pm to leave the Taufique household?

-Yes

-line 86

Did you show more interest in the case after you heard that the crime took place on Sinclair’s property?

-Yes

-line 18(“That name piqued my interest, to say the least.”)

-line 49(“I was really curious about whether Jaden Sinclair was the same person I had once arrested.”)

When you arrived at the crime scene, did you talk to anyone other than Jaden Sinclair himself?

-No

Prior to arresting Sinclair, did you know of his fingerprints on the car trunk?

-No

A person wearing gloves does not leave fingerprints, correct?

-Yes

At that time, did you know that the ransom e-mail was from Sinclair’s missing PDA?

-No

Did you have any firsthand accounts from anyone who said that they saw Mr. Sinclair kidnap, drug, or otherwise hurt Kiran Taufique?

-No

For that matter, even now do you have any firsthand accounts from someone who claims to have seen Mr. Sinclair kidnap Kiran Taufique?

-No

After you arrested Sinclair, did you talk to Morgan Kincaid?

-Yes

Was Morgan the last person to see Kiran before you found him in the car?

-Yes

Yet Morgan left for Europe before you met her again?

-Yes

With the testimonies you collected, including that of Morgan Kincaid, can you name the time when Kiran entered the car trunk?

-No

If yes…

-What is that time?

-You can’t name the time, can you?

Did you or did you not lie to Kiran to try to convict Sinclair?

-Yes

-If called “police tactic:” That “police tactic” was lying, am I correct?

-lines 136-137 (“I tried to convince Kiran that Sinclair denied knowing who Kiran was in order to get her/him to talk about LEX, but s/he didn’t believe me.”)

Is Kmail an internet-based email system?

-Yes

So the kmail account could have been created from any computer with internet access?

-Yes

-lines 166-173 (never says account was created on PDA)

The internet can be accessed from many different computers, correct?

-Yes

In other words, could someone other than Sinclair have created the kmail account at any one of millionsof computers and then used Sinclair’smissing PDA to send the ransom e-mail?

-Yes

When you recovered Sinclair’s car keys, was the remote open device missing?

-Yes

-lines 172-173

With that remote open device, can someone open the trunk?

-Yes

So someone other that Sinclair could have opened the car trunk and placed Kiran inside it, correct?

-Yes