Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - DISTRICT ATTORNEY ELECTION-Durham Co
Originally Posted by caffeinatd
I saw this in the online Herald Sun today, wonder if he is looking into Janet's case? Here is the link http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-719618.html
Maybe we should email /call him and Nifong to have him start investigating it.
.wow........."snip"..
"DURHAM -- For the first time in two decades, the Durham District Attorney's Office has a genuine investigator to find witnesses to crime, interview them and otherwise ferret out information that prosecutors need to build cases.
He is Linwood Wilson, a former policeman and private eye with decades of experience. Wilson was retired until District Attorney Mike Nifong hired him in December to help run a worthless-check program. Now Wilson spends more time investigating homicides, rapes and robberies than he does chasing bad-check writers. "
..although i'm thrilled to read that durham NOW has someone TO investigate, (if he's given the assignment.)..........i'm shocked that prior to dec.2005, :...........
"For a time after the last investigator died, such work was placed in the hands of junior assistant prosecutors, who did it on the side as part of their on-the-job training. And in recent years, the slot has been filled by a woman whose duties are more secretarial than investigative in nature. "
..no wonder this case has been dragging........LE is over worked, the DA's office is over worked..........( as seems to be the case all over..)
..hopefully this new investigator will get on it----------and we'll see an arrest and conviction SOON.
Remember the cab driver?
Victim gives details of racial slurs and sexual violence - www.ezboard.com
Cab driver arrested
...In another lacrosse case development this week, a cab driver who is an alibi witness for Seligmann was arrested Wednesday on a 2=-year-old misdemeanor larceny charge, accusing him of stealing five pocketbooks from the Hecht's store at Northgate Mall in September 2003.
The cabbie, Moecelden Ahmed Elmostafa, has said he picked up Seligmann and took to him to an ATM and a restaurant during what defense lawyers believe was the relevant time period for the alleged rape in March.
A lawyer for Seligmann, Ernest Conner of Greenville, was quoted Thursday as saying the misdemeanor arrest was an apparent attempt to intimidate Elmostafa in the lacrosse case.
But Linwood Wilson, an investigator for the Durham District Attorney's Office, denied the allegation.
Denies intimidation try
Wilson said the warrant originally was sworn out by a Hecht's security guard, long before the lacrosse incident arose. And when officers attempted to serve the warrant nearly three years ago, Elmostafa could not be found, according to Wilson.
But when the cabbie began giving interviews about the lacrosse case, authorities finally were able to track him down, Wilson added.
"When I did a record check on him, I found there was this unserved warrant," he said. "It was my obligation to have it served. If I had not had it served, there would be people complaining about that, too. It had nothing to do with trying to intimidate the man."
On Thursday, Elmostafa referred all questions to his lawyer, Thomas Loflin, who couldn't be reached for comment.
But The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Thursday that Durham Police Investigator R.D. Clayton, one of the detectives working the lacrosse case, picked up Elmostafa along with another officer.
"The detective asked if I had anything new to say about the lacrosse case," Elmostafa told The News & Observer. "When I said no, they took me to the magistrate."
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URL for this article:
www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-733878.html
Which links to WRAL:Alleged Victim Was Tested At Hospital For Date-Rape Drug An exotic dancer who says she was gang-raped and beaten at a Duke lacrosse team party where she was hired to perform was given a test at a hospital to determine if she had a date-rape drug in her system, WRAL has learned.
The accuser, a 27-year-old single mother and student at North Carolina Central University, was treated shortly after the alleged attack on the morning of March 14 at Duke University Medical Center, according to court documents.
Was Nifong's denial that there was not a toxicology report only in reference to the rape kit and not to some other tests which may have been performed?
I haven't noticed any reporting from WRAL which highlights this obvious contradiction...
Thank you for that excellent information - Protect the Bill of Rights !
Post 1030 tells a story. I think Linwood Wilson is a little to close to the case. Seems he has a personal interest. Seems like he may also be supplying the local community activists (false) information in order to incite anger. Victoria Peterson has predicted events in this case before they've happened (she's also been wrong), and Peterson told the news media that her source is an investigator in the case.
Nifong also fought for and created this investigator's position for Linwood himself.
When I see someone so personally involved and using such poor judgement, the first thing that comes to mind is evidence tampering.
Nifong seems to have a loose cannon out there with a license to cross the law.
I wonder if everything will come out eventually.