The logs show that Shelton was dispatched to the Hillsborough Road Kroger supermarket -- where police first encountered the woman -- at 1:32 a.m. He left there at 1:49 a.m. The logs have no mention of Shelton's going to Duke Hospital.
According to Shelton, he decided that CGM should be taken to Durham Access because she would not speak and she could not walk. Since they didn't know her, taking her home was not an option.
They left Kroger at 1:49 for Durham Access and by 2:12 Shelton was requesting a unit stop by Charles Street to check on her kids. So in that 23 minute range, her demeanor must have changed dramatically.
You sober up pretty fast in the back of cop car. Even faster once you reach the jail.
A few days back I posted about the cell phone Mangum apparently had at the party. I said I thought summed up the case in a nutshell, making points like:
1. Mangum dropped it when she fell and did not get it back.
2. The police did not investigate it.
3. The DA is completely uninterested in it.
4. The defense not knowing what is on it wants it perserved. [This to me is most telling that nothing happened. If something happened they would not dare seek to get evidence from a cell phone one of the players did not have under his control.]
Well tonight I watched the first setting hearing for the first time. A link to a CourtTV file of it follows:
http://release.theplatform.com/content.select?pid=xDpiiRI2jJQ1hKhActHbd99eW-vKCJL7&UserName=Unknown
The phone came up and let me add a 5th point of how it is this case in a nutshell:
5. The judge is very concerned about the cell phone. He mentioned that it might be owned by someone else and that would raise third party AND FOURTH PARTY concerns. The judge is clearly with his FOURTH PARTY remark worried about whose number might be on that cell phone. He order the phone information not be released until it can be viewed "in camera."
via NBC-17 in Raleigh:
"A handwritten narrative report by Sgt. J.C. Shelton that is attached to the motion says the accuser first reported being raped after officers had decided to involuntary commit her."
10 posted on 05/27/2006 3:13:09 AM EDT by zaxxon