[Jezebelle]

What is the story on the police chief? I missed that entire aspect of the case.

[JLS]

What is the story on the police chief? I missed that entire aspect of the case.

His his mother is said to be seriously sick and he used this reason to bail right when this case came up. He has been gone the whole time. Whether he would have gone to care for his sick mother had this case not come up is anyone's guess.

[maggief]

The police chief has been MIA since late March, early April. The reason given was that he was taking time off to care for his "gravely" ill mother. God bless her, Mom has been hanging in there for over two months.

Back in February, 2006, Chalmers put in place the General Order 4077 on Eyewitness Identification which calls for an independent administrator to run the lineup, not the primary investigator, and the lineup should include five "fillers" -- people who have no connection to the case -- for every suspect, to protect against faulty identification. The Duke LAX lineup ran contrary to those guidelines.