I may be jumping the gun, but fellow helicopter pilots: We may have a convert!
Even if Elmo were guilty -- and he might have been -- the district attorney's office should have taken a hard look at the evidence. From the vaunted videotape, to the testimony of their star witness -- a habitual shoplifter with a record a mile long.
In fact, "Elmo hour" might hold a pointed lesson for Nifong et al: There are some charges that, for the sake of the accused, the victim, and the community, it just might be better to drop.
Drop the charges? I'm speechless! God Bless You All!
The hair test would have found GHB.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12570228&dopt=Abstract
A controlled human administration of 25 mg/kg to a volunteer demonstrated that a single exposure to GHB is detectable in hair after segmentation. In a case of rape under influence, a clear increase of the corresponding segment (about 2.4 ng/mg) in time was observed, in comparison with the other segments (0.6 to 0.8 ng/mg). This study demonstrates that a single exposure to GHB in a case of sexual assault can be documented by hair analysis when collected about one month after the crime.