[maggief]

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FROM CASH - Update on Gottlieb Ticket Controversy
Author: cashmichaels
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GREETINGS:

I see PJ has been keeping all of you busy in my absence. I've been reading it all - very interesting, verrry interesting.

Anyway, I'm not posting to start trouble, though the temptation to do so is quite commanding.

Instead I wanted to give all of you an exclusive...YES YOU...an exclusive update to a story that a poster, Leon, originally tipped me to and I followed up on (thanks Leon ). I know that Liestoppers or Durham-in-Wonderland made mention of it first (which I was unaware of when I started looking into the matter), but I believe I put some meat on the bone with my latest story about ethical questions in the Duke case (www.wilmingtonjournal.com) concerning Sgt. Mark Gottlieb and a traffic accident he had in Raleigh in March 2005, and can now put even more meat, EXCLUSIVELY JUST FOR YOU, now.

Why am I doing this? Because I got the heads up today that the News & Observer is now on the story too after my piece was published Thursday. So since I can't beat their new angle in my paper before next Thursday, I'll beat them here.


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[Mike Nifong]

The DPD also said about the Duke Students, at some point, that they have a zero tolerance policy.

If that's your policy - it has to apply to everyone.

The thing that many people don't understand is that Durham is overwhelmed with crime and this guy is arresting 20 year olds for underage drinking and noise violations.

It may have been the party that the N&O mentions in their article - but at one point they pulled up to a Duke party with basically a swat truck and a paddy wagon. They burst into the party and arrested everyone under 21 and those 21 or over got hit with noise violations.

At that point, the assignment of resources is absurd.

Just like Nifong moving the DNA tests for this case to the highest priority in the state - and letting DNA in cases of mass murders languish.

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[Ken H]

I'm testing the system here. Would you do a keyword search on DLXDPD and post the headline, author, and link? Thanks!

[maggief]

From Cash:



So if what Sughrue presented to me is true, Gottlieb was supposed to have gotten a ticket, but the RPD officer chose not to in direct contradiction to the RPD Police Chief's directive.

What will happen now? Obviously nothing. But there is no question that Sgt. Gottlieb was on the receiving end of a courtesy that had certainly ended a year earlier.

[Ken H]

Come to think of it, I'm not sure where you go to search for keywords. Just go to post #8!

[streeeetwise]

we need to run a line up of just bald dpd officers and tell the cook that whoever he picks, if he is bald, will be charged.

[TommyDale]

Who is this Leon guy?