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N & O BIAS . &&& N & O BIAS *** N & O BIAS +++

I don't think this was caught yet:

If you remember a couple weeks back, the
News & Observer ran the races of the AV and the
suspect in the Blincos beating. They also
printed that racial epiteths were reportedly used by
Police IN THEIR ON-LINE VERSION.

The Paper version was cleansed of all such damaging
information.

Well, Lookie what happened today. The following was
ommitted from the Print version!

"According to notes taken by Investigator Benjamin Himan, Wilson said that NIFONG WANTED TO BE TOLD when the taxi driver was arrested.

The prosecutor's office or police collected evidence on Elmostafa that included his insurance and driving history, several years' worth of drug tests -- all of which were negative -- and a criminal record check......"

"The case against Elmostafa is at least the second time in which a witness involved in the lacrosse case received personal attention from Nifong.

The second woman hired to dance at the party was arrested on a probation violation immediately after she gave a statement to investigators. Nifong personally signed paperwork that changed KIM ROBERTS' bail status, which FREED HER from having to pay a $1,875 balance to her bail bondsman.

Nifong said the change was routine and denied it had anything to do with the lacrosse
case."




So, NIFONG's Involvement was excised and the
disparate treatment of Kim Roberts was erased too!

The two most DAMAGING parts of the article!!!

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300 posted on 08/15/2006 11:39:48 AM PDT by Mike Nifong (Somebody Stop Me !)
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To: All

ON-LINE VERSION
Published: Aug 15, 2006 12:30 AM
Modified: Aug 15, 2006 06:05 AM


Rape case witness has court date
A taxi driver who says he gave a ride to a Duke lacrosse player has his own problem

Benjamin Niolet and Joseph Neff, Staff Writers

DURHAM - The cab driver who surfaced as a witness for one of the players charged in the Duke University lacrosse rape investigation -- only to be arrested on a three-year-old shoplifting warrant -- is due in court today on the charge that he says is unfounded.

Moezeldin Elmostafa signed a sworn statement in April saying that on the night of a Duke lacrosse party, he picked up Reade Seligmann and another player and drove them to a cash machine, a fast-food burger joint and then a campus dorm. Seligmann is one of three players indicted on accusations brought by a woman hired through an escort service.

In May, an investigator in the lacrosse case arrested Elmostafa on a 2003 warrant charging the On Time taxi driver in a shoplifting from Hecht's at Northgate Mall. The cab driver has said the warrant came after he gave a cab ride to a woman who later pleaded guilty to stealing from the department store. Elmostafa has said that once he learned about the theft, he helped investigators with the case.

Lawyers representing the players raised questions about why authorities made the arrest and questioned whether someone was trying to intimidate the driver. Elmostafa's case was one more battleground where the defense lawyers criticized and questioned Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong.

Defense lawyers have said in court and in written motions that Elmostafa's account of that night provides an alibi for Seligmann.

Nifong said at a July news conference that Elmostafa was arrested because it is the DA office's policy to serve old warrants. There are more than 60,000 unserved warrants in Durham, Nifong said.

"It's always been our policy when we discover those things to get them served," Nifong said.

Linwood Wilson, an investigator in Nifong's office, said Monday that he discovered the warrant when he ran a routine criminal background check on Elmostafa, the type of check he does for all victims and witnesses the prosecutor's office handles. Wilson said he told Nifong about the warrant, and Nifong told him that the office policy was to serve it.

Wilson said he told two detectives working the lacrosse case about the warrant, and Investigator R.D. Clayton arrested Elmostafa on May 10. He was released from the Durham County jail on $700 bail. According to notes taken by Investigator Benjamin Himan, Wilson said that Nifong wanted to be told when the taxi driver was arrested.

The prosecutor's office or police collected evidence on Elmostafa that included his insurance and driving history, several years' worth of drug tests -- all of which were negative -- and a criminal record check.

Elmostafa declined to comment on his case. His attorney could not be reached for comment. The case is scheduled this morning.

The case against Elmostafa is at least the second time in which a witness involved in the lacrosse case received personal attention from Nifong.

The second woman hired to dance at the party was arrested on a probation violation immediately after she gave a statement to investigators. Nifong personally signed paperwork that changed Kim Roberts' bail status, which freed her from having to pay a $1,875 balance to her bail bondsman.

Nifong said the change was routine and denied it had anything to do with the lacrosse case.
Staff writer Benjamin Niolet can be reached at 956-2404 or bniolet@newsobserver.com.
© Copyright 2006, The News & Observer Publishing Company
A subsidiary of The McClatchy Company


301 posted on 08/15/2006 11:43:30 AM PDT by Mike Nifong (Somebody Stop Me !)
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To: Mike Nifong

I cannot recall where I read this but I did not dream it.
I will look for it, hopefully I saved it.

Cannot remember the exact wording but the crux of it was that serving that warrant on the cabbie originated with Nifong.


303 posted on 08/15/2006 11:47:39 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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