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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Exactly. Most reasonable people infer that they wouldn't do that or project honest motives on these guys.
They let us down every time too.
KC Johnson at Durham in Wonderland might be interested in that.
I don't know. I remembered what you guys said, and figured the chances were greater when I read that he was an ex-security guard.
Crystal Gail LOL !
Wouldn't that be something if it turned out he was a vice officer. Does anyone know what area he worked?
It's all speculation, but if that was the case, that might explain the very odd statements made on the radio that night like they were familar with the AV's youngins.
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Vern had a wreck in his cop car last year. Backed into another car in a parking lot.
Said a UPS truck "limited his space"
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More bad news for Durham:
Durham SAT scores plummet
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-765335.html
When asked for comment, Linwood Wilson said, Somebody plummet our test's too - walked right off wif 'em.
The young 'uns statement has always bothered me.
Someone knew her.
"There ain't no truth in that." ;)
Like Elmostafa and Chalmers, Linwood probably misspelled SAT.
But he did have a Checkered past.
I agree... They radio transmission was at 2:12.. do we know what time she got to DA..?
She was obviously mum until she got there and the nurse asked if she'd been raped...
I'm with you... someone knew her and knew she had kids.. I just wonder why they felt a need to check on them if they knew they were with nana and peepaw....
LOL! Linwood seems a little to eager to take the blame and shield Nifong. Since he works in the DA's office and his stories about why he was involved make no sense - he's only exacerbating Nifong's problems.
He's the perfect corollary to Crystal's Father. It's only a matter of time before someone asks him to shut up.
Further, even at Durham Access she was out of it. At that point, she was providing one word answers, I believe.
"A registered nurse at Durham Access said the woman was INCOHERENT and her responses appeared "as if she were psychologically hurt," Stewart wrote"
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/468272.html
Herald Sun
DURHAM -- A date-rape drug test reportedly involving a hair sample of the alleged Duke lacrosse victim has turned up negative, one of the defense attorneys said Wednesday.
According to Kirk Osborn, he and fellow defense lawyers learned the result from Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong at a meeting last week with Judge Osmond Smith about the case, in which three lacrosse players are under indictment on charges of sexually assaulting an exotic dancer at an off-campus party in March.
Attempts to obtain comment from Nifong's office were unsuccessful Wednesday.
Osborn told The Herald-Sun he wasn't surprised at the outcome of the test.
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http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-765602.html
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Linwood Wilson commented that that there ain't no truth in that. Hare testing is like reading hands he said.
Do you think any evidence will come back to aid the prosecution? Damn, this is ugly!
They better come up with a three year old tape of the players stealing gum and running out, and change the charges accordingly - or Nifong's pain is going to be conveyed and he ambulates out of Dutham!
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Begin excerpt - A date-rape drug test reportedly involving a hair sample of the alleged Duke lacrosse victim has turned up negative, one of the defense attorneys said Wednesday.
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Forensic consultant Shannon Miller, also a physician and associate professor of psychiatry at Wright State University in Ohio, said conducting date-rape drug testing is standard procedure.
Negative results, he said, don't necessarily mean no substances were used. That's because some drugs can wash out of the body quickly, he said, also citing the importance of the timing of the test.
I just don't know Ken. It's out of my league.
How long do you think it'll be before one of the talking heads says we have to give Nifong the benefit of the doubt. He may have evidence he's holding back - and something convinced that Grand Jury... ?
We should remember that someone from the DA's office or DPD (IIRC, a investigator on the case) told the Durham Herald Sun and activist Victoria Petersen that the Hair involved was a caucasian pubic hair found on the woman's body at Duke during her SANE exam.
It was strange because the Herald-Sun mentioned it once briefly and never again - and no other outlet reported it.
Joe Cheshire was asked about this hair at the DNA press conference and he told them he didn't know what they were talking about. He looked at the other attorneys and said did you read anything about a hair and they shook their heads no. Cheshire said I didn't see anything about a hair.
So, if that hair analysis was really the AV's hair and the DA or Police lied to the Media about non-existent evidence - once again, Durham, we have a problem!
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