Warrants sought personal items
Duke lacrosse player Reade Seligmann was arrested and charged April 18 with first degree forceable rape, first degree sexual assault and kidnapping in a case involving an exotic dancer who said she was raped at a lacrosse team party held in Durham.
Durham police on Tuesday night searched rape defendant Collin Finnerty's room for personal items belonging to his accuser, according to a search warrant filed today. They seized a news clipping and a seven-month-old envelope.
The investigators who visited Finnerty's room at Duke University's Edens dormitory the day of his arrest were looking for clothing, a shoe and other property, according to the warrant.
Pictures, which were taken the night of a March 13 lacrosse team party at which an escort service dancer says she was raped, show the accuser wearing only one of her white, high-heeled shoes.
The warrants also show that they were looking for photos and video recordings from the party, as well as e-mail, computers that might contain evidence proving a rape, kidnapping and sex offense.
But, according to an inventory made public this afternoon, they seized only a New York Times article about the case and an envelope sent to Finnerty in September from a woman with a Boston College address.
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an envelope sent to Finnerty in September from a woman with a Boston College address.
Good Lord, it's probably a letter from his aunt or something....