[CondorFlight]

Great work at liestoppers--new motion to compel discovery--

http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/

Among the new details to emerge:

There are VHS tapes of at least two of the ID sessions– the one held for Kim (the second dancer) was not done until May 11– which is AFTER the indictments!

There is a cache of internal police emails about the case, but these were never turned over to the defense. (The defense found out
about this email collection on their own while rummaging through the DPD files, but it still hasn’t been turned over)

Nifong (as of the date of the motion) STILL had not produced the tox report (though he told judge Smith he would)

The AV was involved in at least four police probes:

DUI — 2000
Larceny — 2000
Family/Minor — 2000
Child Molestation — 4-26-2004

She may have been a complaintant in the child molestation probe.

Seems like a great way to run an investigation--indict first, then collect the evidence; arrest every witness in sight to intimidate them; get the defendants trumped-up convictions of their own--I never saw anything like this on Law and Order!

[GAgal]

Please see post 333 for the latest motion.

[maggief]

Family/Minor — 2000
Child Molestation — 4-26-2004


Wonder if the AV's children, (young 'uns), were involved?

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Nor will you. If folks knew how things are headed in this country, they'd never leave their homes. You can only know how bad it is if you're unlucky enough to be a target -- for whatever reason -- class envy, plain old garden-variety jealousy, don't like the way you part your hair prejudice. Don't think it can't happen to you -- irritate the wrong kind of people -- intentionally or innocently -- and you'll find out what justice in the U.S. is.

I know good Christian people who have been hauled in and roughed up by LE who are now afraid to come out of their homes -- black and white people -- not poor, disadvantaged folks -- PhD's upper middle class people. This isn't good. Think you'll see a scenario like that on "Law and Order"? I don't think so.

[JLS]

I read the motion in part while dealing with my day. I have a few thoughts about it:

1. I guess Judge Titus has been shown he can take his semi-gag order" and shove it.

2. One reason that Nifong needs to drop this case is the discovery keeps showing him to be a liar. In the motion, the defense attorneys point out that police notes contradict Nifong's assertion that his meeting with Mangum was not a discussion of the case.