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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Let's hope he does not get away with it. This is the first time I have seen the bigger picture as far as Nifong and Hawkins go.
He knows her from traffic court. He, the master of the deals.
Maybe off subject but I can't help but wonder how many times a day this kind of stuff goes on all across small town USA.
How many men have lost their savings paying for atty's in cases where they were innocent. Plead guilty and get it over with. That's our justice system.
One of these days there will be internet "lists" for every crime done in America. Only because this is a high profile case is it getting the attention it's getting. Women charge innocent men all too often and the criminal system is used.
http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/apps/offender/offend1?DOCNUM=0174277&SENTENCEINFO=yes&SHOWPHOTO=yes
What gets me is that the entire DA's office must be rolling over on this. They must see it as Prosecutorial excess but they are staying quiet. Morally they are just as bad a Nifong. If but one of them came forward and went public with what Nofong is doing and saying this would be all over.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
That woman is really pathetic. How easy will it be for Nifong to use her too?
ROFLOL!!
I like that page better also. What it does not show are the other arrests in which the charges were dismissed.
I would call her a career criminal because I really don't think DPD makes a game of Pin the Charge on Hawkins.
She has to be an informant.
This proves what I have said all along. If it can happen to the lax players, it can happen to anyone-Elmostafa is the next victim.
Nifong does not use the law for justice. He uses the law to manipulate and destroy. He is dangerous.
Yes, it's a lesser charge, which is why I think this case is on its way to dismissal unless Nifong has a witness. The only witnesses who can implicate Mostafa are the women who were already convicted of the theft three years ago.
It's a lesser charge, but also easier to prove if Nifong can get one of the women already convicted of the theft to say Mostafa drove them there to help them steal and get away or told them to steal the purses. If these are raghead women, which I think they are, I don't see them ratting out a Muslim male unless Nifong has a hammer of some sort over one or both of them. If they don't rat Mostafa out, the case gets dismissed for lack of evidence. As somebody else said, Nifong, bastard that he is, may just be dragging this out to cost Mostafa some money and harrass him.
The way I read it (thanks Protect the Bill of Rights!)
Hawkins was arrested on July 7th, 2006 .]
She's in jail now and not scheduled to get out to September
SENTENCE BEGIN DATE (FOR MAX): 2006-07-21
ACTUAL SENTENCE END DATE: 2006-09-12
PROJECTED RELEASE DATE (PRD): 2006-09-12
Then she'll be a state's witness (that's my theory anyway)
How many times have we seen this in this case?
AV's boyfriend arrested.
Ex husband arrested.
Close girlfriend arrested
And ALL sometime AFTER the Party on March 13th.
Look at the effect this has on future potential witnesses for the LAX players - unless you live in New Jersey - you're going to avoid this case !
It could mean she rolls in the hay with the prosecutor!
I cannot get over 127 arrests and the majority of them have been dismissed.
Irony--there is one for failing to pay a cab driver.
Bet she didn't steal the cab, though, and try to run over a cop.... :;
I meant to make a "wink" and failed miserably...
Au contraire, LOL!
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
Her sentence? Probation (the DA's office must not value the cops)
The larceny could have been the vehicle, LOL!
LOL! I give up! I need a vacation. Unfortunately, I've chosen to take mine in Durham this year.... If I had any guts, I'd go to the courthouse on Monday to see if I can get a glimpse of the Fongmeister.
Nah. Nevermind. I have better things to do.
I'm just a law student but am I right in thinking that aiding and abetting requires knowledge that a crime is being committed and consent to the crime being committed?
According to the cabbie he just drove a woman to and from a store and was unaware she had stolen anything. In fact, he assisted the police in finding the woman when they contacted him. I guess this woman could implicate him but how credible is she?
This was on the ABC Board...
WTVD11 just reported that Elmostafa's court case has been continued because prosecutors have just uncovered a video-tape of him at the scene of the crime.
Prosecutors will not say what is on the tape, but it prompted them to change the charge to aiding and abetting the shoplifting.
WTVD says that this will damage the credibility of Reade's alibi.
WTF...three years later and this video-tape magically appears?
He probably opened the car door for her...
The video tape must show him rubbing his hands together, laughing, and tweaking his moustache like the villain in Dudley Do-Right, as the professional criminal shares her stash with him.
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