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To: David Allen

I wasn't saying that at any time.

I was saying that they didn't mention where it was pinpointed and then they jumped into location on victim's bodies where they search.

There's nothing to indicate it was on her body


22 posted on 05/11/2006 1:20:02 AM PDT by OakOak
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To: OakOak; Howlin; TexKat; All

Holy cow!

http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/438305.html


Lacrosse defense witness arrested
Cabbie questioned in 2003 incident

Moezeldin Elmostafa was held for five hours at the jail.


Joseph Neff and Samiha Khanna, Staff Writers
DURHAM - A Durham police detective investigating the Duke University lacrosse case arrested an alibi witness Wednesday on a 2 1/2-year-old misdemeanor warrant.

Taxi driver Moezeldin Elmostafa said Investigator R.D. Clayton and another officer asked whether he had anything new to tell them about the rape case before driving him to the Durham County jail. He said no and was held for five hours, until a friend posted his bail on a shoplifting charge.

Ernest Conner, a Greenville lawyer who represents defendant Reade Seligmann, said the cabbie's arrest amounted to intimidation. "It appears to me they are trying to pressure a witness who supports our defendant's rock-solid alibi," Conner said.

Sgt. Mark Gottlieb, the supervisor of the investigation, refused to answer questions Wednesday night.

Elmostafa signed a sworn statement in April saying he picked up Seligmann from a Duke lacrosse team party just after midnight March 14. Seligmann and another player, Collin Finnerty, have been charged with raping an escort service dancer during the party at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.

Elmostafa's affidavit said he picked up Seligmann at 12:19 a.m. that morning and drove him to an automated teller machine, a fast-food burger joint and back to his dorm. To corroborate the taxi driver's statement, Seligmann's lawyers filed copies in court of phone records, security photos from the ATM and electronic records showing when Seligmann entered his dorm.

The lawyers have said that Elmostafa's account and the records exonerate Seligmann.

Clayton, who is working under Gottlieb on the case, picked up Elmostafa on Wednesday afternoon.

"The detective asked if I had anything new to say about the lacrosse case," Elmostafa said. "When I said no, they took me to the magistrate."

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25 posted on 05/11/2006 1:28:39 AM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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