investigation that's correct he was meaningless and meaningless yes almost meaningless why do you need like almost your honor the reason is because the jury learned the following from that statement that this third party salvatore van wells was at some place unknown to the jury at some time unknown to the jury may have been remember he was the subject of an investigation may then involved in the trafficking of some drug unknown to the jury now in contrast to that what the defense was prohibited from the listening at trial with the necessary crucial facts that show that salvador van w certainly and very likely was responsible for the marijuana in that car and because it had been his car at one time for a number of reasons you are one was he was the prime minister are the fire registered owner but it's one of the proper foundation as late as the method of preparation of the document you are certainly you do distinguish between the concepts of authenticity which is part of the foundation yes and method of preparation of the documents jus from hearsay objection the method of preparation for the document was in the document itself he discusses but who can cross examine the documents your honor well that's the point of a public record so that you can it isn't necessary to bring in somebody mexican border in california you know it doesn't there are however that it was that he was responsible for bringing cannabis and cocaine into chicago from texas that's correct you're not the same as driving something across the border in california in a car you know but certainly your honor as invite the corps pointed out and that this court pointed out in that case certainly the fire registered owner could have prepared the car for a trip across the border but certainly for his tracking activities got the car in may of two thousand and two almost exactly one year later and there was testimony at trial that this compartment was at least a year old if you had gotten this document into evidence how would you have argued your case to the jury how would you have used it to support your case my case we've been supported because i could have made salvatore van wells what would you have said to the jury you see this doctor i would has told the jury this is a man who smuggled hundreds of pound marijuana across the country we know that he's considered by the the n r a and the chicago police department to be a known hire out of boston a kingpin in a major drug smuggling organization drugs regularly passed through his hands officer rector's joe it was a failed attempt at it to kill the transaction of things and therefore it was his marijuana in the car that your client was driving very possibly i should have been allowed to argue that the jury with the facts that made salvador graham will become an actual drug smuggler as he was in addition to your honor if you had twenty pounds of marijuana thousand and one of the residences he kept in his name would not be unreasonable to to the jury that he was willing to put twenty thousand marijuana in a house he kept in his own name he would be willing to put thirty five kilos of marijuana in a car he kept in his own name these are all things i was prevented from chicago fair to think that he was doing that somehow other than passenger pigeons and that stuff could have been a car i mean you know as well as i do even if it was probably for a long time people put stuff in cars down in mexico and california all the time they never pick up i mean cars are found all the each case is going to be slightly different but what if i had a host stand for is that another person could have possibly put the drugs in the car preparing the car for some of his drug trafficking activities he didn't get the opportunity to for whatever reason and perhaps in this court even if the defense there is purely speculative is that just record characterizes the evidence would be relevant that's correct your honor if the evidence that someone else committed the crime was in truth calculated to cause the jury to doubt the court should not