Danny Mandel was a defense witness who had dined at the Mezzaluna restaurant on the night of the murders and walked near Bundy Drive afterward. Called by Robert Shapiro, his testimony centered on the timeline of his movements that evening — a critical point since even small discrepancies in when passersby were near the crime scene could shift the window for when the murders occurred. Under cross-examination, Marcia Clark pressed Mandel on the reliability of his time estimates, establishing that he had been uncertain enough about when he left the restaurant that he had to contact his credit card company for a copy of his receipt, and that he did not speak to police until after the preliminary hearing had already concluded.