I think Sgt. Shelton sounds like an experienced officer with a good read on people. In his radio call with the dispatcher, he said the accuser was medically "fine", just "passed out drunk". He said he was taking her in for a 24 hr. hold.
His 4/9 report seems to say that from her reaction to the ammonia, he decided she was only faking being passed out. She resisted being removed from the car, and collapsed on the pavement after being pulled out. After she wouldn't (not couldn't) give the officers her name and address, Sgt. Shelton decided to "involuntarily commit" her at Durham Access Center, and handed her off to two other officers on scene. Cheshire said neither of those officers with her with she cried rape at DAC wrote a report given to them in discovery.
Sgt. was told she cried rape, told the junior officers to take her to Duke, where she recanted and recanted her recantation. It sounds like Shelton finally had had enough and asked her point blank whether she had been raped or not. I think Crystal realized her "poor me" act was useless with Shelton. That's when she refused to speak to him any more. Sgt. Shelton may be the only competent Durham employee who appears as a witness.
http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-739040.html
Read Day's report and where he writes "raped" use the word "groped" instead.
CGM was groped by approxmiately 20 white males, she changed her story several times, and the charges probably wouldn't exceed misdemeanor assault. That sounds a lot like the night as it was described in Shelton's report up to the point when she no longer wanted to speak to him.
http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/443932.html
Accuser seemed OK early on, driver says
DURHAM - The man who drove the accuser in the Duke University lacrosse case to the team party said she did not seem intoxicated when he dropped her off that night.
Brian Taylor, who met the accuser at a Super Bowl party two years ago, said he spent an hour and a half with her before driving her to the party where she was hired to dance.
"She had called me a few hours earlier, asking me if she could use my place to get ready," Taylor said Friday.
Taylor said he did not know how the woman, a 27-year-old N.C. Central University student with two children, got to his home March 13. But he said that when she arrived about 9 p.m., he noticed nothing unusual about her demeanor. He did not say whether they consumed any alcohol.
Taylor had known for a while that his guest was a dancer. He and a male friend had watched her perform at clubs in Smithfield and Hillsborough.
As he sat in front of his PlayStation console March 13, the accuser showered behind a closed door and modeled at least two negligees for her host, he said.
"She asked my opinion," he said. "The first one was this black outfit, and I said, 'No.' When she came out in the red one I said, 'That's better.' "
It was 10:45 p.m., Taylor estimated, when they left for 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.
"The deal was for me to take her over there for about a two-hour show," he said. "She was supposed to call me to come pick her up."
Taylor did not hear from her again until 7 a.m. the next day. She was at Duke Hospital.
"She was distraught," he said. "I could tell that she was crying. She asked me to pick up her kids."
He said she didn't mention being attacked in that conversation or in a call more than a week later.
"She just told me her name would be in the news," Taylor said.
He said he did not check on the accuser's children or tell her parents where she was. "I told her I would, but I didn't," he said. "I don't know her that well."
Taylor said he has not seen the accuser since that night. Police came to his home weeks ago and asked him to make a statement.
He said that all he could tell investigators was about their visit and the drive to the house, which he had difficulty finding.
Taylor and his passenger were flagged down by a man outside 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. awaiting their arrival. "On our way there, she got two calls on her cell phone saying if you don't come soon, it's going to get canceled," Taylor said.