Posted on 08/17/2011 4:21:37 AM PDT by NCjim
Durham, N.C. — A judge on Tuesday dismissed a murder charge against a Mebane man arrested last year with the remains of a Durham woman in his backpack.
Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson ruled that the state withheld evidence by allowing the family of Lakiea Lacole Boxley to cremate her remains.
Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline immediately said she would appeal the ruling.
Michael Charles Dorman, 33, of 1411 Sundown Drive, was arrested in July 2010 after one of his friends told investigators that Dorman admitted to killing a prostitute and asked him to help dispose of her remains. Prosecutors said Dorman told investigators that he only found the remains and planned to use them for his sexual gratification.
Boxley, 31, had been missing since March 2008, and an autopsy determined that she might have been shot in the head.
Defense attorney Lawrence Campbell asked that the charges against Dorman be dismissed because critical evidence in the case had been destroyed.
State law requires remains to be returned to families once a medical examiner's investigation into the cause of death is complete, North Carolina Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Deborah Radisch testified.
Campbell said the medical examiner was finished with Boxley's remains weeks before they were released to her family in South Carolina. He argued that the Durham Police Department allowed the remains to be destroyed only after securing a murder indictment against Dorman last September, and he pointed to an email in which a police investigator gave his approval on the release as evidence that the State Medical Examiner's Office consulted with police in the case.
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Good Lord...just when I think I have seen it all.
Ping
Good thing RD’s family did not cremate him.
Excitable Boy
by Warren Zevon
Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy
He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark
Excitable boy, they all said
And he bit the usherette’s leg in the dark
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy
He took little Susie to the Junior Prom
Excitable boy, they all said
and he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy
After ten long years they let him out of the Home
Excitable boy, they all said
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy
Touching that the state is not releasing Dorman until they can be sure he isn’t a danger to himself. Everyone else should carry a gun.
Look at his photo: http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/image/8036275/?ref_id=8044898
I would not worry about him being a danger to himself. What would concern me is that he would be a danger to me or my family. My advice would be to stay away from him, but, if he makes that impossible, neutralize the threat.
fetal alcohol syndrome
Looks like it.
(Durham news.)
I bet a photo of the Judge is about the same.
The judge is really making a mess of things with this ruling. Many more killers will be released because the judge also ruled that releasing bodies to families, per state law, would be decided on a case by case basis. No bright line rule.
“... an autopsy determined that she might have been shot in the head.”
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Sounds like they did that autopsy in Florida
It’s Derm. Can’t say I’m surprised.
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