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...same Durham area taxi driver cited as an alibi witness for accused Duke university lacrosse player Reade Seligmann may end up hurting some aspects of the defense's argument that no rape at all occurred at the off-campus party that night. Called in by investigators in the Duke rape case for the first time Tuesday, taxi driver Moez Mostafa told TIME in an exclusive interview, he stated he saw exotic dancer Kim Roberts exchange angry words with lacrosse players, enter "an old white car" and speed away from the scene. While Mostafa told Durham police detective and lead case...
...Using Mostafa?s statement, prosecutors are certain to attack what has become a very public set of alibis for the defense - the series of allegedly time-stamped photos taken by players the night of the party, some of which have been leaked to the media. Seligmann, 20, and teammate Collin Finnerty, 19, have been charged with rape in the case. Finnerty will stand trial in July in Washington, D.C., on an unrelated assault charge, a judge there ruled this week...
...want to look like I?m on the side of the defense only. I want to look like I?m an honest person." Mostafa said he told investigators (who would not comment on the interview or any aspect of the case) that he does believe it was Reade Seligmann, and another unknown player, that he picked up at the party house at 12:19 a.m. on the morning of March 14. He told investigators he dropped the pair off at 12:40 a.m. at a dorm on campus, after making several stops. Mostafa said he returned to the house...
...Mostafa told TIME he was not shown photos of anyone connected to the case during his 1-hour-and-44-minute statement. He says investigators asked him if he?d been paid for supplying Seligmann an alibi, because Seligmann?s father, and then a defense attorneys, spoke to him more than a month ago. "I told him nobody paid me anything," Mostafa said...