Posted on 08/15/2006 2:41:50 PM PDT by abb
DURHAM, N.C. -- A cab driver who has supported an alibi offered by one of the three Duke lacrosse players charged with rape had his own court appearance Tuesday for a larceny charge.
Moezeldin Elmostafa, 37, appeared briefly before a Durham County District Court judge who set a trial date of Aug. 29. Prosecutors also changed the charge against Elmostafa to aiding and abetting misdemeanor larcency.
Elmostafa was arrested in May after he surfaced as a potential alibi witness for Reade Seligmann, one of three players charged with raping a woman at an off-campus party the night of March 13.
The 2003 warrant accused Elmostafa of stealing five purses worth about $250 from a Durham department store. Elmostafa denies the charge, and has said he helped store security locate a woman after he picked her up from the store and drove her home. The woman later pleaded guilty to larceny.
Durham prosecutors said in May the warrant for Elmostafa's arrest was discovered in a routine background check of witnesses in the Duke lacrosse case.
Mostafa has said Seligmann, of Essex Fells, N.J., called for a ride at 12:14 a.m. on March 14, and was picked up five minutes later. The defense has argued those times help establish that Seligmann left the party without having enough time to participate in the 30-minute assault described by the accuser. Seligmann's attorney has also presented cell phone, ATM and dorm keycard records to help establish that timeline.
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I did. I was good food, but oddly it wasn't open on Friday nights. It must be a lunch place, but I was never around during the day. The calzones were fantastic. Our favorite spot was Tyler's Taproom, though.
Hmmm...the ex-mayor's daughter? This is interesting. Can you find the approximate age of Lisa and James?
All the houses on that block are unique designs and layouts.
Actually, more like maybe the ex-mayor's daughter-in-law, possibly married and/or divorced with Michael J?
What kind of car do they drive? LOL! ;-)
Doesn't appear she's ever been married, shocking ain't it.
So maybe she and Michael J are brother & sister. Yes, I find it shocking that she hasn't found Mister Right. LOL!
Lisa was born 1965
Anyone know when James was born? Was the ex-mayor white?
Whoops, hit post before I finished. I have done much searching and cannot find much in terms of a bio for James Hawkins.
He is a Real Estate bigwig but that is about it.
One thing that ocurred to me last evenning is that we may have been somewhat misreading the cabbie case yesterday. To me agreement on the judge would be Nifong hoping to have a judge throw out Mangum's ID so he can get out of this case and blame the cops. From Nifong's point of view tossing the ID is a much more graceful out than a heart attack. He can takes his time, smear Evans, Finnerty and Seiligmann one more time when he claims they are rapists but says he can not go to trial without the Mangum's ID of them.
But being vindictive SOB he is, Nifong still is going after the cabbie to show everyone in Durham that if you cross Nifong he will get you if he can. That is why the ABN/VC needs to win at the ballot box in Nov.
I will let you know later. LOL
My guess is that Lisa drives a stolen car with stolen license plates, but I have nothing to base that on! LOL!
Are you sure 1965? That would make her 3 years younger than me...I thought she looked older (tooting my own horn here)
She looks older because of such things as jail, crack, you name it. She looks like she has been around the block so many times she left a 12" deep rut in the concrete sidewalk.
Rode hard and put up wet comes to mind.
James Hawkins is white and very old-. 89 ? , maybe dead.
There is also W. E. N. (William or Bill) Hawkins who is former Executive Editor of the Herald-Sun, before the buyout.
Again, no inference. Just curious as to why so many arrests and dismissals.
I think more what the law assumes is that IF you are offered a $1000 at retail brand new lap top for $200 that it is likely "hot."
Thus, I doubt the woman whose boyfriend gave here a stolen engagement ring would be bothered by the law unless it was a say 4 carat diamond and her boyfiend did not have much in the way of income, wealth or a ring like this as a family heirloom.
The ring was a bad example...it was what just pooped in my brain.
You said what I tried to say, LOL! When I get tired my brain gets soooo slow.
I hope none of the local reporters have anything Nifong can use on them. If they do, they'll be next.
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