Exclusive: What If the Convicted "Serial Rapist Cop" Is Innocent?

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Michelle Malkin |Posted: Dec 02, 2016 12:01 AM

"To hell with Daniel Holtzclaw, and his tears." -- MTV News correspondent
Jamil Smith

"Drown in your tears, asshole." -- NYC playwright/actress Mara Wilson

"Where is the widespread outrage? Where is the media coverage? Why don't
we matter???!!?" -- actress Gabrielle Union

Former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw's emotional breakdown
went viral one year ago this week in the worst way possible. He became a
national punching bag when a jury convicted him on 18 of 36 counts of
sexual assault-related crimes against eight black women. His sentence: 263
years.

But what if he didn't do it -- any of it?

To the casual observer, Holtzclaw's tears looked like the tears of a man
sorry he got caught.

But I am no longer a casual observer. For the past several months, I've
reviewed extensive court records, accuser testimony, and discovery
documents, video and audio. I visited the alleged crime scenes. I
interviewed the two lead detectives who constructed the case against him,
along with local community activists, a top DNA expert, Holtzclaw's family
and friends, and Holtzclaw himself.

The truth about the Holtzclaw case is that a monstrous miscarriage of
justice has occurred in the courts of law and public opinion. Just raising
the possibility of his innocence has caused an angry backlash. Last week,
social justice activists forced a billboard company in Oklahoma City to
yank an advertisement for my new investigative web-based TV series on the
case for CRTV.com that simply asked: "What if he didn't do it?"

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Prosecutors failed to present a single, corroborating witness or a single
piece of direct forensic evidence proving Holtzclaw committed any of the
36 alleged assaults allegedly perpetrated at 17 different crime scenes.

Holtzclaw never once asked for a lawyer during a two-hour interrogation by
sex-crimes detectives -- which came just 12 hours after he allegedly
forced a 57-year-old woman to perform oral sex on him during his last
overnight shift on June 18, 2014. In fact, Holtzclaw was completely
forthcoming and consistent in his description of the 15-minute traffic
stop involving northeast OKC resident and star accuser Jannie Ligons. He
readily agreed to take a lie detector test "anytime," voluntarily
submitted to a buccal swab, handed over his uniform for DNA analysis, and
signed a waiver allowing detectives to search his home, computers and
phone.

"I want everything" done, Holtzclaw told detectives -- even when they
falsely claimed to have incriminating video that "doesn't look really
good" and purportedly showed "a whole lot of action being performed."

One surveillance video from a nearby commercial building did record
Holtzclaw and Ligons's cars on the side of the road. But the video is too
grainy and distant to confirm anything other than the fact that a traffic
stop took place. The video showed several cars pass by during the 15-
minute encounter.

These are hardly the place and manner in which a serial predator would try
to conceal his conduct from prying eyes.

A sexual assault nurse examiner test on Ligons, who claimed Holtzclaw
forced her to put his penis in his mouth "for about 10 seconds," came up
empty for Holtzclaw's DNA. Sex-crimes detective Kim Davis explained away
the negative SANE results to me by noting that Ligons had told her that
Holtzclaw "did not ejaculate."

But in the police interrogation video, Davis had warned Holtzclaw: "Do you
understand that you don't have to full-blown ejaculate to get something
out of the SANE exam?...We can get skin cells. We can get pre-ejaculate.
We can do all that and still get DNA."

Davis pressed him: "Did your penis go in her mouth?" Holtzclaw firmly
answered: "No. It did not."

The forensic evidence backed up Holtzclaw, not Ligons.

She claimed Holtzclaw forced her to put her hands on the hood of his car
during the stop. She also alleged that he put his hands on the roof while
purportedly assaulting her as she sat in the backseat as he stood on the
rear passenger side with the door open. Extensive fingerprint and DNA
tests all over Holtzclaw's vehicle -- again, just hours after the alleged
assault -- also came up empty.

The forensic evidence backed up Holtzclaw, not Ligons.

Holtzclaw's demeanor during his interrogation is all the more remarkable
and exculpatory when you consider that later in the investigation,
detectives procured two other accusers who claimed Holtzclaw assaulted
them on the same day as the Ligons' stop. These women (and the vast
majority of the rest of the accusers) were actively hunted down by
detectives, who primed the pump by falsely stating in advance that they
"had a tip" the women could be victims of a sexual assault by a police
officer they had encountered in the past.

Prosecutors argued that Holtzclaw "targeted" these vulnerable women
because they were the "perfect victims." But my conclusion is that
detectives targeted what Holtzclaw's defense team called "the perfect
accusers." Outside of the courtroom, their stories became insulated from
deeper public scrutiny because of their politically correct status. Now,
12 of 13 accusers (including four on whose charges Holtzclaw was
acquitted) are suing for monetary damages. The litigation circus is being
led by Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown family lawyer, Benjamin Crump.

Those women included:

--Convicted felon Sherry Ellis, who testified under oath at a preliminary
hearing that her attacker was "black" and short (Holtzclaw is light-
skinned and 6'1" tall), and who could not identify that attacker as
Holtzclaw while he sat in the courtroom.

--Convicted felon Tabitha Barnes, who described Holtzclaw as "dark-
skinned" and had not reported any inappropriate behavior -- until a sex-
crimes detective informed her about the Holtzclaw investigation, supplied
her with a date and she changed her story. Barnes testified positive for
PCP on the morning she testified at trial. She had also ingested
hydrocodone and marijuana.

--Carla Raines, who denied seven times she had been the victim of any
inappropriate police conduct -- until a sex-crimes detective informed her
about the Holtzclaw investigation and she changed her story to claim that
he had forced her to expose her breasts.

--Convicted felon Terri Morris, a drug addict diagnosed as a "paranoid
schizophrenic with depressive features" who couldn't pick out Holtzclaw
from a line-up and described him as having skin with a "dark color,"
either "Indian" or "Irish" or maybe "white" and in his "thirties, forties,
I don't know, fifties." She also misidentified Holtzclaw's patrol car,
told the investigators to "leave me alone," and called their questions
"bulls---."

--Convicted felon Shardayreon Hill, who had been rushed to the hospital in
December 2013 at the behest of Holtzclaw and his assisting officers after
she crushed a vial of PCP in her mouth and spilled more PCP on her skin.
Hill called police in September 2014 alleging Holtzclaw had sexually
assaulted her -- only after the Ligons allegations went public and only
after she faced felony charges for destroying evidence and intent to
distribute PCP.

--A.G., a 17-year-old girl who excitedly told her mother that Holtzclaw
was a "hot cop" with whom she was going to go on "dates." She came forward
to allege that Holtzclaw vaginally raped her -- but only after her mother
was contacted by sex-crimes detectives who told her in advance she may be
a victim of police abuse and only after her mother searched the internet
for news and a photo of Holtzclaw.

The discovery of A.G.'s DNA on the crotch area of Holtzclaw's uniform
pants was touted as the prosecution's "smoking gun." But the skin cells
were derived from a minuscule sample that measured a billionth of a gram
and this "evidence" continues to be brazenly mischaracterized. In closing
arguments, prosecutor Gayland Gieger falsely asserted that the DNA came
"from the walls of her vagina" and "was transferred in vaginal fluids."

But the State's own crime lab expert admitted on the stand that no testing
was done to establish the presence of vaginal fluid on the pants.

"The only thing I can tell you is it is a biological material that
originated from" the teenager, Oklahoma crime lab analyst Elaine Taylor
testified. "(H)ow it was put there or how it got there, I wasn't there, I
didn't see what happened so I can't really tell you exactly what
happened."

As Wright State University biology professor and president of Forensic
Bioinformatics, Dr. Dan Krane, a leading DNA expert, emphasized to me,
indirect "transfer is a well documented and real possibility." Yet, no
testing was conducted anywhere else on the pants to rule out this
phenomenon of secondary or even tertiary transfer due to casual
interaction such as a handshake or other indirect contact. (Holtzclaw had
searched A.G.'s purse.) Nor were the pants fluoresced or tested for other
body fluids.

Furthermore, prosecutors failed to note the presence of at least three
other sources of DNA on Holtzclaw's pants, including an unknown male's --
a glaring omission now being raised on appeal that further bolsters the
innocuous transfer theory. Prosecutor Gayland Gieger sneered at the
transfer DNA phenomenon in closing arguments, again in direct
contradiction to the State's own crime lab expert, who acknowledged under
oath the possibility of secondary transfer and its extensive documentation
in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

I've just shown you the tip of the iceberg of reasonable doubt that exists
in this case. The truth matters because the tactics used against Holtzclaw
could be used against anyone. But I don't want you to just take my word on
it. As Holtzclaw, who turns 30 on Dec. 10, the one-year anniversary of his
convictions, told me in a phone interview from jail: "I want the world to
read in detail about my case ... I want the world to see that this can
happen to you."

"Daniel in the Den: The Truth About the Holtzclaw Case," a two-part
series, airs exclusively on CRTV.com's new program, "Michelle Malkin
Investigates," beginning Dec. 5.


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then only reason people care is because hes cop but what about being man
. im right