The background of people in high profile cases is important. This arrest report was important on many levels and let us understand who and what we where dealing with. Anne Mercer was called by Patti Bowman to come to the Kennedy estate saying she had been raped by William Kennedy-Smith. The date of this arrest was a year and a half before the incident.

The Palm Beach Post published the following February 2, 1992:

A deposition from a bartender at F.J. O'Donnell's Saloon in West Palm Beach who said that Anne Mercer, a prosecution witness, has been thrown out of the bar a number of times for becoming drunk and belligerent.

The Palm Beach Post is used to show that the people in these cases always stay consistent. Anne Mercer had told police she did not even know her address. Paperwork like this leads us in many directions.