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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The NYTimes piece may be a prelude to "60 Minutes." :(
who is Anita?
Oh man, I didn't even think of that.
I expect another PC hatchet job.
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The female officer took photographs and confirmed that “she had the ONSET of new bruises present,” Sergeant Gottlieb wrote. (The FEMALE OFFICER’s report does NOT mention bruises.)
NYT
This contradicts the Medical Records too! They have a device that shows Bruising before it is visible to the eye.
This is routinely used in SANE exams.
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A pimp who ended up with the daughter of the current and/or previous NCCU vice chancellor of Institutional Advancement. Driving a '95 Accord, nonetheless.
Could the logical conclusion be he dropped out of sight because NCCU is helping him lay low??
As a pimp, does he know things, know people? Does he deliver services to certain people at NCCU?
I am just brainstorming.
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___ GOTTLIEB is already UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE DPD.
For what it's worth.
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More brainstorming ...
possible payback for his cooperation and formal statement to the DPD.
The racist, instigating bald blinco's bully cop???
How could they be so far off? One has them all being short and chubby and the other has one being tall and lean and babyfaced (hmm...) and another at 6ft with dark hair. Puhleeze.
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"The DIFFERENCE in the police accounts could NOT be explained. Both investigators have declined public comment. Sergeant Gottlieb, 43, is by far the more experienced. He was hired by the Durham Police Department in 1987 and promoted to sergeant in May 2005 and to supervisor of investigations in February 2006; Officer Himan, 27, was hired in 2002 and assigned to investigations last January, said a police spokeswoman, Kammie Michael."
NYT
So, now Himan just got it all wrong - including the only description given of the SUSPECTS by the VICTIM.
It should be Noted that only HIMAN (a Detective since JAN) had in his notes that Nifong wanted the Cabbie arrested and NIFONG wanted to be alerted when he was, in fact, in police custody.
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GOTT that right.
He is Nifong's Point man apparently - and Himman who was a Detecive for 3 months when the arrests were made - NEVER GOT THE MEMO.
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Full text of NYT article at :
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/us/25duke.html?ei=5094&en=66033963f960d53e&hp=&ex=1156478400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print
At least it refers to the woman as "the accuser".
OMG, This NYT article is a butcher Job !
They make it sound like the towel near Evans Bedroom fits into the woman's story - WHEN, IN FACT, there's DNA on there that DOES NOT match the woman or anyone at the Party. Conveniently - it's totally left out.
They also butcher the part about her claiming ejacualtions - eithter Susan Filan, Joe Neff, and ABrams got it wrong - or they did - or the NYT is purposefully portraying it like semen in her mouth would automatically not be detected by tests. Which is totally incorrect. Her DNA should be on the floor and their DNA should be in her mouth.
Neither was the case - and the NYT does not mention it any way.
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Oh yeah, she admits to Police that she's SOLD drugs in the Past.
NYT
Don't people that sell drugs usually use them too?
Unbelievable
So Gottlieb turned over these typed notes on July 17--that's FOUR MONTHS after the event?
Time enough to get his story straight with Nifong?
Time enough to know what he has to put down in order to
make Nifong's account work?
No reasonable person would believe that (but we're not dealing with reason here)
If the LAPD can be put on trial in the OJ Simpson case, then the Durham PD ought to be put on trial in this case.
Dealing....my oh my
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