An affidavit for a warrant to search the dorm room of Collin Finnerty, 19, showed police were looking for clothing from suspect or the accuser, as well as property belonging to the alleged victim, who told police she was raped by three Duke lacrosse athletes. It also mentions looking for digital recordings, still photos and e-mail correspondence.
The search warrant returns, showing what was seized, were made public this afternoon:
according to an inventory made public this afternoon, they seized only a New York Times article about the case and an envelope sent to Finnerty in September from a woman with a Boston College address.
Moez Mostafa, the cabdriver who responded to Reade Seligmann's 12:19 a.m. call to pick him up a block and a half from the party, confirms his alibi and says he acted normal.
ABC News reported on the alibi yesterday:
A series of time-stamped photographs viewed by ABC News show the girls dancing at midnight and at 12:02 a.m. By 12:24 a.m., a receipt reviewed by ABC indicates that Seligmann's ATM card was used at a nearby Wachovia bank. In a written statement to the defense also reviewed by ABC, a cabdriver confirms picking up Seligmann and a friend a block and a half from the party, and driving them to the bank. By 12:25 a.m., he was making a phone call to a girlfriend out of state.
What did Seligmann do after leaving the bank? The taxi driver remembers taking him to a drive-thru fast-food restaurant and then dropping him off at his dorm. Duke University records show that Seligmann's card was used to gain entry at 12:46 a.m.
WRAL reports the cabdriver says he returned to the house later to pick up another player.
In an interview on MSNBC, Mostafa said he returned to the house later to pick up another customer. He said he remembered that person "said in a loud voice, 'She just a stripper.'"
Asked whether the second fare was complaining about the stripper or whether it appeared something bad had happened to her, Mostafa initially said he didn't "have any information about what was going on in the house."
"When I look back, he look like he mad at the stripper. Or the stripper, she going to call the police and she just a stripper. ... It look to me like somebody get hurt. But what kind of harm, ... I have no idea."
That part of his story seems off, since when police arrived at 12:55, the house seemed deserted. Could he have gotten back to the party house ten minutes after he dropped Seligmann off at his dorm? Not being familiar with Durham, I have no idea, but I wonder, did he mix up his times or get a little carried away?
