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Still using the inaccurate spelling excuse, (see also Chalmer's daughter).

Anyone else having trouble buying Linwood's story? Wouldn't be the first time he was caught in a lie.

http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-765287.html

But Linwood Wilson, the district attorney's investigator, denied that the shoplifting case was used to pressure Elmostafa.

"There ain't no truth in that," he insisted.

Wilson said Elmostafa could not be found in 2003, partly because authorities had an inaccurate spelling of his name. However, Elmostafa's correct name turned up in a routine record check earlier this year -- a check sparked by the lacrosse case, Wilson added.

"We run a criminal record check on anybody that's a witness for either side in any case," said Wilson. "When we find an outstanding warrant, we have it served. ... It has nothing to do with putting any kind of pressure on [Elmostafa]."

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/480475.html

The trial, which took up the better part of Tuesday, was infused with the lacrosse controversy. Tom Loflin, Elmostafa's lawyer, filed motions seeking to have the case thrown out, accusing Nifong of trying to get Elmostafa to change his story. And all day long, two investigators on the lacrosse case, Benjamin Himan and R.D. Clayton, sat in the courtroom.

"Why are they here? Supposedly they know zero about Hecht's, so why are they here?" Loflin said after the trial.

Wilson said he asked the investigators to be in the courtroom since Loflin's motions mentioned them, and Loflin briefly put Himan on the stand to ask about typed notes turned over to defense lawyers in the lacrosse case. Himan's notes state that "Mr. Nifong wanted to know when we picked [Elmostafa] up."

"We run a criminal record check on anybody that's a witness for either side in any case," said Wilson. "When we find an outstanding warrant, we have it served. ... It has nothing to do with putting any kind of pressure on [Elmostafa]."

If it has nothing to do with the Duke LAX case why did Himan and Clayton ask Elmo if he had anything more to say about the case before hauling him off to jail? Why did Nifong want to know when Elmo was arrested? Lies, lies, lies ...

http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/438305.html

Published: May 11, 2006 12:30 AM

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Taxi driver Moezeldin Elmostafa said Investigator R.D. Clayton and another officer asked whether he had anything new to tell them about the rape case before driving him to the Durham County jail. He said no and was held for five hours, until a friend posted his bail on a shoplifting charge.

(snip)

Clayton, who is working under Gottlieb on the case, picked up Elmostafa on Wednesday afternoon.

"The detective asked if I had anything new to say about the lacrosse case," Elmostafa said. "When I said no, they took me to the magistrate."

(snip)

Still using the inaccurate spelling excuse, (see also Chalmer's daughter).

Anyone else having trouble buying Linwood's story? Wouldn't be the first time he was caught in a lie.

I forgot about brother Linwood saying that. He better hope there isn't a hell.