The information was brought to his office in Durham. He asked his assistant, Sheila Eason, to make copies of everything “exactly the way they appear in the file.” She did that over a period of three days. Wanted them to be exact duplicates.
His staff went over each page by hand to make sure everything was there. Then, as additional material was added, he added them and numbered them, he said. “That was the procedure. It is certainly possible I dealt with that particular folder (the report from Meehan on May 12), but I don’t think that I did.”
Photo lineup April 4. Two indictments on April 17. What other info did you have other than the photo ID did you have to present to the grand jury? Nifong: Doesn’t know what was presented to the GJ but says the indictments were based on her photo IDs. Said he didn’t consider to be a lineup. Said a lineup is something you have a suspect in, he says. That’s why he wasn’t concerned about lineup procedure.
“We were looking for anybody who could give us information…if we approached them and said we believe you had interaction with our victim that night, what can you tell us,” he said. He said asking lawyers to have their clients to to the cops to talk hadn’t worked.
“I looked as the lacrosse team as the universe which may or may not” include the perpetrators. Kennedy: So the universe couldn’t be bigger than the lacrosse team? Minus one? The lone black player? Nifong: Yes, I should have specified that.
Witt: “That other piece of evidence that we talked about.” It’s a tape provided by the DPD on May 18, 2007. Suggests people view it at lunchtime to speed up the process.
