Lee's Phone Records Introduced

As the trial of Jason Lee on the charge of rape in the first degree continued in Riverside on Wednesday, the prosecution turned its attention to Mr. Lee’s cellphone records on the morning of Aug. 20, 2013, when the alleged rape took place.

Over the two hours that prosecutors said Mr. Lee was hiding in the back of his Range Rover in his driveway in East Hampton as police searched for him, dozens of calls ranging in length from 30 seconds to 5 minutes were made to and from his cellphone, according to testimony from Detective Charles Scharff of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.

The detective testified as an expert in investigating phone records. According to the detective, Mr. Lee’s phone was used to call his friend Rene Duncan, who was at the house with him and had been out on the town with him the night before. It was also used to call the house phone and various taxi companies in East Hampton and Montauk. Last week, a dispatcher for Lindy’s Taxi testified that she had received a call from the number now known to be Mr. Lee’s requesting a taxi from the house to the Surf Lodge in Montauk around the time the police investigation began.

As the morning grew later, the phone was used in many calls to and from Goldman Sachs, the financial giant where Mr. Lee was a managing director at the time, the detective testified.

Mr. Lee’s text records are expected to be introduced in court on Thursday as the trial moves into its sixth day.