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Trial date set for Duke lacrosse witness (DukeLax Cabbie to be Nifonged)
Raleigh News and Observer ^ | August 15, 2006 | Staff

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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To: pepperhead

Text of Mary Lacy's meeting with press
http://www.denverpost.com/jonbenet/ci_4199137

"You all have many questions that you want answered. John Karr is presumed innocent. We are rightfully constrained by the code of professional conduct and the presumption of innocence from answering those questions that you want answered this morning."


421 posted on 08/18/2006 8:20:50 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
What was the charge again? Driving w/o a license or something such as that?

I thought so, no wonder Durham is such a mess. What is so tough about trying a traffic court case.

422 posted on 08/18/2006 8:20:52 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: abb

Good that you e-mailed that USAToday story to the N&O. And good for USATODAY for making that obvious and small leap in pring.


423 posted on 08/18/2006 8:24:57 AM PDT by JLS
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To: abb

I guess we need to wait for some initial ruling to determine whether this Judge has what it takes to objectively assess this case.

Nifong could possibly push for an early review (and likely dismissal) so that the steam would be taken out of the ABN campaign. Am I dreaming?


424 posted on 08/18/2006 8:25:37 AM PDT by bjc (Check the data!!)
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To: pepperhead; Protect the Bill of Rights
Here is the charge against Murchsion.

http://www1.aoc.state.nc.us/www/servlet/calendars.Offense.do?submit=submit&case=3102006005394&court=CR&defendant=MURCHISON,MATTHEW&courtDate=11/09/2006&courtRoom=0006&session=AM

425 posted on 08/18/2006 8:26:01 AM PDT by I want to know
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To: bjc

"Nifong could possibly push for an early review (and likely dismissal) so that the steam would be taken out of the ABN campaign. Am I dreaming?"

No, that is his best chance. If the case is over, then
outside money will cease to flow in to ABN, and after a week, all but the most stalwart will figure "mission accomplished" and go on to something else.

The longer this case goes on, though, the more outside money will flow in, and the longer ABN supporters are going to keep on the job.

If it ends now, then by October news items about the case will be old, and being used to line birdcages.


426 posted on 08/18/2006 8:28:01 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: CondorFlight

Right, if this gets dismissed the coverage and money coming in dies down. Nifong will also be able to blame others for this case getting dismissed.


427 posted on 08/18/2006 8:37:16 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: CondorFlight

Person County is most rural farmlands.

It's where WILLIE PERSON MANGUM
was from. Remember him?

It's also where many Durhamites are
escaping to over the last 20 years.

Very good land investment.


428 posted on 08/18/2006 8:52:43 AM PDT by xoxoxox
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To: NCjim
Anybody else see this link on the WRAL-TV page? (I found it interesting that the link text does not match the article title)

Duke Drops Among Elite In National College Rankings

429 posted on 08/18/2006 8:53:38 AM PDT by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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To: NCjim

This ranking is not nearly as useful and the ranking that incorporate student and, especially, graduating student ratings. If you look at the BusinessWeek rankings of business schools they include input from students. Yale, for example, plummets from 3 on the USNWR listing to 23 on the BW poll. Different program yes, but also very different methodology. Duke actually looks pretty good - but that is before the fall-out of this event.


430 posted on 08/18/2006 9:14:12 AM PDT by bjc (Check the data!!)
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To: abb

Wow. Like night and day from Nifong. I wonder why? Oh, that's right he had a primary to win. Oh yeah, and he's corrupt and totally without scruples.


431 posted on 08/18/2006 9:31:22 AM PDT by SarahUSC
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Be careful what you say about NC. You might get one of those special posts or freepmails like I've been getting! LOL!


432 posted on 08/18/2006 9:42:32 AM PDT by TommyDale (It's time to dismiss the Duke fake rape case, Mr. Nifong!)
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To: pepperhead

On H&C they were discussing the JBR case. Can't remember exactly what was said, but thought that it was interesting that they were waiting for the DNA to determine if he was really the killer...that if the DNA didn't match they couldn't really proceed...well, I guess Durham can show them that you can, maybe you shouldn't, but you can. I just thought the comparisons of how they are talking about a case where someone has confessed, has a background of child pornography charges, is treated skeptically, but a case with no evidence was treated as the real deal....I will do as the DA in Boulder said, keep an open-mind, if they can prove that he couldn't have been in Boulder at the time it's over. Still wandering why someone would confess to something so gross if they didn't do it?


433 posted on 08/18/2006 9:45:04 AM PDT by old and cranky (You! Out Of The Gene Pool - Now!)
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http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/469139.html

A long time ago, I argued that the SBI lab must not have found any DNA on or in CGM. Defense attorneys were criticized for saying there was no DNA found on CGM after the first round of tests when it was revealed that her boyfriend's DNA was found in her in the second round.

I was told that there was no way SBI missed the boyfriend's DNA, and the lawyers must have been spinning.

Turns out the SBI lab apparently did miss the boyfriend's DNA.

"Nifong’s office filed a motion on court on April 5 asking a judge to order a private lab to conduct further DNA tests because “The tests conducted by the S.B.I. laboratory failed to reveal the presence of semen on swabs from the rape kit or the victim’s underwear.” "

How is this going to fly in court? One test finds no semen, and one test finds semen.

Either that, or Nifong lied to get the second tests paid for.


434 posted on 08/18/2006 10:42:14 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: ltc8k6

That would explain the Fong's cussing tirade the day the second tests came back and Cheshire and Co. held the Friday night news conference. He would have been mightily pissed to find himself skewered by the second DNA tests...


435 posted on 08/18/2006 10:47:52 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: old and cranky
On H&C they were discussing the JBR case. Can't remember exactly what was said, but thought that it was interesting that they were waiting for the DNA to determine if he was really the killer...that if the DNA didn't match they couldn't really proceed...well, I guess Durham can show them that you can, maybe you shouldn't, but you can.

Didn't see H&C, but I wouldn't find it surprising if any of the liberals there wanted to wait and see what the DNA test show. It is good enough there to prove something but not here. And lets not forget most of the liberals there are Innocence Project cheerleaders. But they are all for railroading of the Duke 3 with no DNA match. The hypocrisy of the talking heads is sickening.
436 posted on 08/18/2006 10:55:52 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: abb

What kind of SBI lab can't detect the presence of semen in a woman who recently had sex?


437 posted on 08/18/2006 11:00:24 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: All

New from Melanie...
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/editor/index.php?title=recent_reporting_on_lacrosse_case&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1


438 posted on 08/18/2006 11:03:00 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: ltc8k6

No wonder Nifong brought out the condoms.

The SBI came up with absoulutely nothing.


439 posted on 08/18/2006 11:06:43 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: All

And Ruth chimes in again, apparently referring to Jakki...
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/ruth/index.php?title=taken_to_task_for_insensitivity&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1


440 posted on 08/18/2006 11:06:56 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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