Ceglia v. Zuckerberg et al
Filing
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DECLARATION signed by Alexander H. Southwell re 588 Reply to Response to Motion filed by Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Facebook, Inc. filed by Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Facebook, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Exhibit D, # 5 Exhibit E, # 6 Exhibit F, # 7 Exhibit G, # 8 Exhibit H, # 9 Exhibit I, # 10 Exhibit J, # 11 Exhibit K, # 12 Exhibit L, # 13 Exhibit M, # 14 Exhibit N, # 15 Exhibit O, # 16 Exhibit P, # 17 Exhibit Q, # 18 Exhibit R)(Snyder, Orin)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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PAUL D. CEGLIA,
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Plaintiff,
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vs.
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No. 1:10-cv-00569
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Individually, and
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MARK ELLIOT ZUCKERBERG,
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FACEBOOK, INC.,
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Defendants.
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July 25, 2012
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10:14 a.m.
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Deposition of JAMES A. BLANCO, held at
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the offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP,
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200 Park Avenue, New York, New York, pursuant
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to court order, before Laurie A. Collins, a
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Registered Professional Reporter and Notary
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Public of the State of New York.
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A P P E A R A N C E S:
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BOLAND LEGAL, LLC
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Attorneys for Plaintiff
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1475 Warren Road
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Unit 770724
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Lakewood, Ohio 44107
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BY:
DEAN BOLAND, ESQ.
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GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP
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Attorneys for Defendants
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200 Park Avenue
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New York, New York 10166-0193
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BY:
ALEXANDER H. SOUTHWELL, ESQ.
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SRIPRIYA NARASIMHAN, ESQ.
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MATTHEW BENJAMIN, ESQ.
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AMANDA AYCOCK, ESQ.
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ALSO PRESENT:
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CODY DETWEILER
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JERRY LaPORTE
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GUS LESNEVICH
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PETER TYTELL
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DMITRY ZVONKOV, Videographer
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document with VSC?
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No.
That's kind of the same question
as UV and infrared.
But no, I did not.
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Q.
You did not use a VSC?
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No, I did not bring one.
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You have a portable VSC; correct?
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Well, I have a -- I have a VSC 4 plus.
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I wouldn't really call that portable.
I do have a
portable system that I've developed.
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I see.
But you did not bring that to
this inspection; correct?
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Correct, because it was my
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understanding Mr. Stewart was going to do those
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analyses.
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You did not use a stereomicroscope in
your examination; correct?
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Well, not a stereomicroscope.
I used
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my close-up lens on my camera, which is better
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than a lot of portable microscopes.
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I see.
And what's the make and model
of the camera?
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Well, it's a Canon camera, but what's
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significant is the lens.
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very good lens.
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Q.
My question was, as you have
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acknowledged, which you just did a few moments
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ago, when the "work for hire" document was
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provided for inspection on July 14th, the ink
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could have been faded; right?
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acknowledged that a few minutes prior.
You just
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I'm not talking about your declaration;
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I'm talking about what we were just talking about,
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because you weren't in fact there.
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All right.
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Am I correct that on that morning of
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the 14th the ink could very well have been faded?
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When it appeared and was unveiled,
you're asking me.
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Right, yes.
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Yes, some fading, some damage, some
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typical -- actually probably a little beyond
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typical damage just in as much as there were
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pretty extreme environmental storage conditions.
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Right.
And that could have led --
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well, for whatever reasons, there could have been
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faded ink on the morning of July 14th, as
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Mr. Tytell put in his declaration; correct?
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Well, I'd say yes.
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Do you think that Mr. Tytell is lying?
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No, no.
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he's looking at.
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lying.
So he -- when he --
But my question is do you think he's
You answered that.
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But it's a judgment call what
MR. BOLAND:
Objection.
You're
interrupting his question -- response.
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MR. SOUTHWELL:
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MR. BOLAND:
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my answer --
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or not.
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You have done that several
times now, Alex.
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No, his response.
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question.
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I don't think he's lying, but to finish
My question is do you think he's lying
I think you rolled out of another
Can we read it back, go back a couple?
I'll read it to you.
I'll ask the
court reporter to read it to you at line 121.
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(Discussion off the record.)
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(Record read as follows:
Right.
And
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that could have led -- well, for whatever
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reasons, there could have been faded ink on
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the morning of July 14th, as Mr. Tytell put in
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his declaration; correct?)
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That's what I want to answer, and so,
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no, I'm not saying he's lying.
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to believe he's lying.
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I have no reason
But when a person is looking at
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something and then they report that I see fading
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or deterioration, well, what level was that?
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That's the question I'm -- I'm confronted with is
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did he see a little and he reported that or did
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it -- was there a lot.
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he says there's a lot, what does that really mean
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to him.
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And so that -- and even if
So that's where there's a bit of
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confusion on my part in trying to assess that.
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Again, I'm trying to assess that without getting
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native format production of your experts'
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documents and imagery.
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just mean imagery.
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When I say "documents," I
If Mr. Tytell testified that the
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appearance of the ink did not change between July
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14th and July 15th, would he be lying then?
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No, it doesn't mean he's lying.
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could be wrong.
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be wrong doesn't mean you're lying.
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He
To
And if he were to testify to that, you
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that Mr. Rantanen did.
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Am I pronouncing that right, Rantanen?
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No, but that's okay.
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Okay.
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We won't tell?
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That's what I've been saying the whole
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time.
That's what I thought it was.
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But right.
You make certain assertions
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about his results.
Those are among the additional
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opinions that you have, including handwriting and
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staple analysis, the impression analysis, all of
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which go to support your general opinion, as you
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set out in your report, that the Facebook
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contract, the "work for hire" contract, is an
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authentic, unaltered document; right?
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Yes.
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And with the exception of the
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handwriting analysis, which we will talk about
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momentarily.
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handwriting analysis, all of the other additional
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opinions which you set out in your report are
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completely consistent with the hypothetical that
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Mr. Ceglia forged both pages of the "work for
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hire" document at the same time; correct?
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It would be consistent -- to be clear,
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that's not my opinion, but you gave me the
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hypothetical --
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Yeah.
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-- and in that hypothetical,
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irrespective of the handwriting, as you said, then
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that would be consistent, yes.
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Now, you understand best practices in
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conducting forensic examination of documents, and
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one tenet of that would be that all portions of a
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questioned document are important to consider in
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rendering an evaluation; right?
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Yes, to the extent that you can perform
detailed analysis of everything that you can, yes.
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So that would be all writings,
markings, and accompaniments to a document?
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To the extent that you can have time to
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examine them, explore them, consider them, and
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write about them in a report, yes.
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So by "accompaniments," something like
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an envelope in which a document was found or
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something like a staple that kept a document
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together, those are the important pieces of
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evidence to consider in rendering an evaluation of
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However, I've done this and I've seen
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it done.
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would use other things, anything handy to hold
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down a document, even a penny, a couple of dimes,
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a quarter, whatever was handy to place on the
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document to hold it down.
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When I was at government crime labs, we
So it is common practice to do
something -- to use something.
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So your basis for asserting this
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possibility is that you believe it's common
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practice, but you don't actually have any factual
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basis for suggesting that this theory occurred
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with respect to this "work for hire" document;
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correct?
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Correct.
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The other possible explanation you
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speculate about with respect to the fluorescent
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tabs is that an ungloved hand wearing suntan
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lotion or something similar may have touched the
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document and left deposits of suntan lotion in
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those particular locations; right?
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powder.
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Now, do you have any specific factual
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basis that this in fact affected this "work for
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hire" document?
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No.
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This is, again, just speculation about
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a possibility; correct?
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It is.
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Now, in your report at page 76, you
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include copies of some of the images taken by
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Mr. Tytell of the "work for hire" document on July
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14th, 2011; right?
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Yes.
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Those images show the fluorescent tabs
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that we've just been talking about that both you
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and defendants' experts described in your reports?
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Yes.
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Mr. Tytell was the first expert to
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examine the document; right?
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Yes.
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And Mr. Tytell's images here clearly
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show that the fluorescent tabs exist; correct?
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I'm trying to get located here.
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Paragraph 201, page 76.
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I'm with you, yes.
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Your Figure 14.
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Yes, go ahead.
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Those images clearly show the
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fluorescent tabs exist; right?
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Yes.
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So, Mr. Blanco, you have no reason to
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believe the fluorescent tabs were not present on
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the document at 9:11 a.m. on July 14th when
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Mr. Tytell took the first images of the "work for
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hire" document, do you?
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I don't have any factual basis for
that, to believe that, no.
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You have no basis to know when the
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fluorescent tabs appeared on the "work for hire"
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document; right?
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Right.
And I think I said towards the
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end of this discussion, the truth is none of the
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experts really know where these came from.
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And you note in your report that the
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"work for hire" document was stored in such a way
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that it had to endure extreme variations in
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temperature and changes in humidity over the
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years; right?
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Yes.
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You mentioned in your report these
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