Posted on 08/29/2006 1:39:25 PM PDT by abb
The Durham cab driver who has surfaced as an alibi witness in the Duke lacrosse rape case today was found not guilty of a 3-year-old shoplifting charge.
Moezeldin Elmostafa is expected to provide an alibi for Reade Seligmann, one of three Duke lacrosse players indicted in the rape case, because he gave Seligmann a ride after the party that led to the rape allegations.
After authorities learned of Elmostafa's potential role in the rape case, they found an unserved warrant naming him in a 2003 shoplifting case at a Hecht’s department store at Northgate Mall in Durham. A security officer for the store testified today in district court that he saw a woman steal handbags from the store and then jump into Elmostafa’s cab, which sped away.
The security officer testified that the cab pulled away even before the woman had closed to the door. A store surveillance tape, played in court, appeared to show that the door closed first.
Defense lawyers in the lacrosse rape case have said that Elmostafa was charged because he is a favorable witness to the defense. Loflin put one of the lacrosse investigators on the witness stand this morning and produced typed notes from the lacrosse case that show District Attorney Mike Nifong wanted to be informed when Elmostafa was arrested.
Assistant District Attorney Ashley Cannon told the judge the shoplifting case has nothing to do with the rape case.
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LOL! Sounds just about right! :>
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/bal-to.media30aug30,0,2913682.story?coll=bal-artslife-tv
Critics say media rushed to judgment in Karr case
Some articles got ahead of the known evidence
Which is why I think we can piggyback the Ramsey media navel-gazing to our favor and make them do the same thing in re: DukeLax...
Greta supposed to do DukeLax tonight according to post on CTV board
BTW, whatever happened to Chief Chalmers?
Gottlieb is running the DPD, under Nifong.
Is Chalmers on extended vacation again? Or off hunting Bigfoot?
(I've never heard of a PD where the chief was invisible,
during the biggest case of his career; and where people
like Linwood Wilson and Gottlieb and the DA ran the force.)
This column translates much the way a Duke student column I translated for the list a week or so ago translated. Here it goes:
"1. I, Ruth Sheehan, am not very smart.
2. I was taught to be PC and PC has served me well in general as a media member.
3. I followed my usual pattern in the Duke case and wrote a column early on.
4. Now it seems that maybe the white males might be the victims and the black woman the bad guy in this case.
5. This is very confusing to me. I can not think so I can not figure this out for myself.
6. There are smarter people than me on the internet. Thus for this column, I will copy a bunch of things they said.
7. I am not capable of indepedent thought so I will copy what they said without further comment."
I hope the above translation clears up why she did not come to a conclusion. She is not smart enough. The case undermines her world view and she does not know what to say.
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-765434.html
Herald-Sun publisher retiring
By JEFF ZIMMER, The Herald-Sun
August 30, 2006 11:50 am
DURHAM -- Robert L. Childress, publisher of The Herald-Sun for nearly two years, announced Wednesday he is retiring in September because of health concerns and a desire to spend more time with his family.
Geoff Moser, publisher of The Herald-Palladium, which also is owned by Paxton Media Group and is based in St. Joseph/Benton Harbor, Mich., will assume the role of publisher at The Herald-Sun. Moser, 61, also serves as group president of Paxton's newspapers in Indiana and Michigan.
A Durham native who spent more than 40 years in the newspaper business, Childress, 66, assumed the top executive position at The Herald-Sun in January 2005 when Paxton Media Group LLC officially became owner of Durham's 116-year-old daily newspaper.
Childress, who as a 12-year-old delivered The Durham Sun, said he was lucky to end his long career in Durham.
"Me getting to come back here, back home, was a miracle," he said. "Then with my health concerns and having Duke only 10 miles away from my home, it's been a godsend."
Childress, who attended Durham High School, came to The Herald-Sun from The Messenger-Inquirer in Owensboro, Ky., where also served as publisher. Previously, Childress served as publisher of Media General's Danville Register & Bee in Danville, Va.
Bob Ashley, editor of The Herald-Sun, worked with Childress in Owensboro and was part of the Paxton executive team that came to the Durham paper in 2005.
"Bob has been a close colleague and a good friend of mine since our days together in Owensboro," Ashley said. " I'm deeply grateful for the confidence he showed in offering me the opportunity to edit The Herald-Sun, and for his support and advice through the years."
Earlier in his career, Childress worked as a circulation district manager at The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Va., then as publisher of The News Messenger in Christiansburg, Va., and the Star-Exponent in Culpeper, Va. He then worked as publisher of The Mountain Press in Sevierville, Tenn., which is owned by Paxton, from 1987 to 1997. Childress attended Southwestern State College in Weatherford, Okla. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1959 to 1963.
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Ruth said enough by slamming Elmo as "the lowly cabbie."
If all this there is no grey to Nifong BS were true, then he would only be not fit to be a DA. It is a lie. The people who claim this ignor that this was done to win the primary.
Nifong is a criminal. He falsely charged people he knew were innocent. He did this solely to win a primary. This lawyer supporting Nifong knows it. Heck he may be supporting Nifong because he knows what a bully Nifong is and he fears dealing with a vindictive DA and that harming his clients.
Athletes must be on best behavior
Legally, the lacrosse team may be innocent of wrongdoing. But regardless of whether a rape occurred in that house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., as prominent representatives of this university, the team let the Duke community down by not living up to its commitment--not living up to the standards its players chose for themselves when they chose to put on Duke Blue.
http://www.duke.edu/web/deltagamma/members.htm
Class of 2009
Meredith Shiner
http://www.duke.edu/web/deltagamma/about.htm
"We are partners in crime ..."
Wonder what that means. Wonder if underage drinking takes place? Wonder if they've ever hired stippers?
strippers. LOL
I wonder what standard Brodhead has to uphold. Throw the athletes under the bus standard?
Looks like Hooliganism run amok to me. Another Blue Wall of Silence?
I don't know what it means anymore.
"I wonder what standard Brodhead has to uphold."
Actually, the Duke faculty has been made to take a rigid vow of silence; they will say nothing about the Durham lynching of their students. It's part of the Rule of Academia, for Carolinian Order, of which they are all lay brothers :
("Say nothing, do nothing, and you will get blamed for nothing. Take no responsibility. Shirk moral duties
when these attract law suits. Substitute
silence for wisdom. Never apologize.")
The first one to utter a peep gets expelled from the monastery by Prior Brodhead.
I have a sneaking suspision that a few faculty members may wish they'd kept their liberal mouths shut before all is said and done. The gang of 88 has been silent as of late.
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