3. Whether the district court abused its discretion by excluding a document that appellant claimed contained the notes of an alleged meeting between Anthony Tennant and Lord Camoys, when Lord Camoys was not identified in the document and appellant was unable to connect Lord Camoys to the document in any manner beyond speculation.
Indeed, Taubman's sole support for his claim that there was a "series of ongoing communications" is one letter each between Taubman and Carrington dated December 1989 -- more than three years before Taubman began his meetings with Tennant -- discussing Taubman's concern about "absurd speculation" contained in "Christie's recent statements to the press and television about Sotheby's business practices" (JA53-54). This single exchange, which Carrington apparently does not even recall (JA28 pp.14-15), simply does not support Taubman's claim that his meetings with Tennant were nothing more than a "continuation of Taubman's communications with Carrington" (Br. 24, 40) (emphasis added).(19) Nor do they evidence "exchanged letters on several of the same topics that Taubman later discussed with Tennant" (Br. 41 n.26) (emphasis added).
The Art Of Speculation Philip L.
Contrary to Taubman's speculation, that the jury in deliberation requested exhibits listing the meeting dates does not necessarily mean that "the jury heard the government's message and viewed the meetings as central to this case" (Br. 70). For all anyone knows, jurors simply may have wanted to refresh their recollection concerning the chronology of events. In fact, the jury requested an extraordinary amount of evidence starting with GX48, Tennant's April 30, 1993 notes, and including "all Davidge papers submitted into evidence" (JA87-90). Also, the district court's Order demolishes Taubman's selective and misleading citation to post-verdict juror statements in the press (Br. 71). JA123-24 & n.4 (explaining Taubman's "fail[ure] to note that the jurors' post-verdict comments primarily reflect that their verdict of guilty was justifiably based on the direct testimony of Davidge and Brooks, supported by Tennant's April 30, 1993 summary").
41. Taubman's speculation that the weight of the quotation was enhanced by the "patina of age" (Br. 76) is just that -- speculation. Equally plausible is that the jury could have discounted the quotation, because of its age, as not relevant to a twenty-first century economy.
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