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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Precisely. Welcome to the North Carolina legal system.
Sure.
Lisa Faye Hawkins
The LAX case is going to trial.
Those who were thinking Nifong was stuck, you were fooling yourselves.
Nifong is in fact all-powerful in Durham county. No one will touch him.
Stay out of Nifongland. I mean that! Drive around it, even if it costs you an hour.
Here's the NandO story on the cabbie's arrest...
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/438305.html
This is worth repeating, because this is how NIFONG get away with this SH*T!
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!!!
On-line version Link:
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/471043.html
Thanks
Inmate number: 0174277
http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/apps/offender/raw1?DOCNUM=0174277&APPV7AA1=on&APPV9BJ1=on&INMV4AA1=on&INMV4BB1=on&INMV4CA1=on&INMV9CF1=on&OFNV1BA1=on&OFNV3AA1=on&OFNV3BB1=on&OFNV3BS1=on&OFNV3BT1=on&OFNV3BV1=on&OFNV3CE1=on&OFNV3DE1=on&OFNV9BE1=on&SEARCH=Search
Curious. Check that out. I have to read it more closely
DATE TRD & PRD LAST COMPUTED: 2006-08-10
OLDEST CONVICTION DATE: 2006-04-06
Hey, they don't even pursue prostitution in Durham! Why would they feel the need to go after a cab driver for such a piddly little charge like this? We all know why, but why does the system allow him to do this? Nifong needs to be brought up on charges of abusing his oath of office.
OFFENDER NC DOC ID NUMBER: 0174277
DATE OF ARREST: 2006-05-02
ARREST SEQ.NO.WITHIN SAME DAY: 1
ARRESTING AGENCY NAME: DURHAM
OFFENSE CODE ARRESTED FOR: LARCENY
She has every reason to change her story.
She has a record as long as my arm!
127 arrests?????
Elmostafa said he was unaware of the theft until after he dropped off the woman at her house and later received a phone call from Hecht's security.
Elmostafa said he gave the woman's address and a copy of his driver's license to the security guard, who thanked him for his help.
The Hecht's employee pressed charges against both Lisa Faye Hawkins, the shopper, and Elmostafa. Hawkins was arrested a short time later and pleaded guilty, adding to a pattern of stealing and drug use dating back to 1982. She could not be reached Thursday.
Did the guard mean to press charges against Elmostafa? Or did the police taking the information from the security guard screw up?
Look at how many of her charges have been dismissed.
Could that mean she rolls?
There you go.
Thanks for verifying my Theory - Protect the Bill of Rights
She was arrested on July 7th - 5 weeks ago.
Wonder what her deal is?
*****
I am convinced Nifong will use her big time. Looking at her record, she could care less whether Elmostafa is charged or not.
She will say on the stand whatever Nifong wants her to say...
1989-07-28
ARREST SEQ.NO.WITHIN SAME DAY: 1
ARRESTING AGENCY NAME: DURHAM COUNTY
OFFENSE CODE ARRESTED FOR: LARCENY
OFFENSE CODE ARRESTED FOR -2ND: OPERATE VEHICLE W/O LICENSE
OFFENSE CODE ARRESTED FOR -3RD: ASSAULT ON POLICEMAN
OFFENSE CODE ARRESTED FOR -4TH: ??????????????????????????????
OFFENSE CODE ARRESTED FOR -5TH: ??????????????????????????????
DISPOSITION OF ARREST CODE: PROBATION TERM
Guess who was in Traffic court during her arrests (many of them traffic related)
I am sick.
The cards are stacked against Elmostafa.
Now if Nifong could only arrest an ATM camera...and a dorm swipe card...and credit card receipts. Maybe the burger joint owner has a record?
Nifong ain't gonna get away with this. It's too obvious. Remember, this is a trial by media. The cabbie's a minority, which won't help him with Cash&Co.
No kidding, this is Kim Roberts redux! The charge of aiding and betting a misdemeanor larceny from 3 years ago when there was already a conviction in a case where the cabbie wasn't even considered a material witness is a sick joke. What a waste of time! Speeding tickets probably carry harsher penalties. I am confident that there will be another thread when we learn what the Fong promised this career criminal in exchange for concocting testimony.
I am also convinced that the Fong is not only a dirtball but is nuts. This, Nikki, the Animal Control Board lunacy, hate mail to Newsweek, bizarre press conferences lashing out at propsoed candidates, and on and on. He has serious emotional distrubances, to put it kindly.
One day, we will see him holding marbles going on about the strawberry ice cream . . .
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