Posted on 08/29/2006 1:39:25 PM PDT by abb
The Durham cab driver who has surfaced as an alibi witness in the Duke lacrosse rape case today was found not guilty of a 3-year-old shoplifting charge.
Moezeldin Elmostafa is expected to provide an alibi for Reade Seligmann, one of three Duke lacrosse players indicted in the rape case, because he gave Seligmann a ride after the party that led to the rape allegations.
After authorities learned of Elmostafa's potential role in the rape case, they found an unserved warrant naming him in a 2003 shoplifting case at a Hecht’s department store at Northgate Mall in Durham. A security officer for the store testified today in district court that he saw a woman steal handbags from the store and then jump into Elmostafa’s cab, which sped away.
The security officer testified that the cab pulled away even before the woman had closed to the door. A store surveillance tape, played in court, appeared to show that the door closed first.
Defense lawyers in the lacrosse rape case have said that Elmostafa was charged because he is a favorable witness to the defense. Loflin put one of the lacrosse investigators on the witness stand this morning and produced typed notes from the lacrosse case that show District Attorney Mike Nifong wanted to be informed when Elmostafa was arrested.
Assistant District Attorney Ashley Cannon told the judge the shoplifting case has nothing to do with the rape case.
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The jury is still out on whether or not Nifong is in his right mind.
And, as I said in my post that you replied to, he might have done it to show that Mangum wasn't under the influence of drugs that night as was being speculated about by the defense. That's a guess - I didn't state it was fact. none of us has any way to know for sure.
The fact remains that Nifong did indeed take the hair sample and submit it for testing. Only Nifong knows why he did it. It was too late for a blood or urine sample, so hair was all that he had left.
Quite true.
LOL!!!!
mark
Such as: "The bloggers and the press know about the connections between some of us and the sex industry! What are we gonna do?"
'Probe' in a case like this could mean just about anything. LOL!
With the testimony of Dec 15, I believe that this witness intimidation needs to be remembered.
From the US Attorney General:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1754981/posts
Latest on Lab testimony:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753040/posts
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