Meyer originally requested preservation of the evidence in a letter dated June 19 to Deputy District Attorney Andrea Raymond, two months before prosecutors filed charges against Cephus. The letter was attached to Meyer’s motion.

According to the criminal complaint, one of the women told police she met Cephus through a mutual friend on April 21, then met up with him later at the Double U bar, 620 University Ave. Both women told police they were very drunk at the bar and at Cephus’ apartment.

Among the evidence Meyer asked prosecutors to preserve were camera images from the lobby, elevator and second floor of Cephus’ apartment building and video footage of the entrances to two residence halls on the UW-Madison campus, which he wrote will show the women were not impaired.

Meyer also asked for video footage from the Double U and another bar, along with city street camera footage on University Avenue and Frances Street, which he said would also show the two were not impaired.

Meyer also sought the results of blood or urine tests of the women done as part of the investigation, and wants prosecutors to preserve phones belonging to Cephus and the two women, along with the results of any forensic examination of the phones.