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this happened this summer, im sure a thread exists, my searches end up in failure
http://dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=162378
Rape suspect charged with Popovich murder in sealed indictment
By Bruce Cadwallader
The Columbus Dispatch
Thursday, January 26, 2006 5:03 PM
Prosecutors and homicide detectives who have been watching the rape trial of Adam Saleh this week are ready to hand him a sealed indictment at any moment accusing him of the murder of local model Julie Popovich last summer, The Dispatch and WBNS-TV have learned. Popovich, 20, was last seen alive on Aug. 11 at a N. High Street bar called Ledo's Lounge. Saleh, 19, was one of the last people with her in the University District. He has denied harming the woman.
But official sources have confirmed that the sealed indictment, which was mistakenly handed to Saleh in the Franklin County jail on Dec. 30, will be served on Saleh once the jury in his rape trial reaches a verdict. Prosecutors did not want the jurors to know Saleh is a suspect in the Popovich case -- to preserve his fair trial rights -- and jurors have been told not to monitor TV and newspaper accounts of the trial.
Columbus homicide detective Mike McCann has repeatedly called Saleh a suspect in the model's disappearance and searched Saleh's apartment a day after Popovich's decomposing body was found in September near Hoover Reservoir.
McCann, Detective Wayne Buck and Patrick Dorn; Kevin Horan, an FBI agent, and the senior prosecutor in charge of the Popovich case have all been watching testimony in Saleh's rape trial.
Should the jury acquit Saleh of the rape, prosecutors have been instructed to issue the indictment and ask Judge David E. Cain of Franklin County Common Pleas Court to set a high bond.
Saleh could be arraigned on the new charges on Monday. If he is convicted of the rape, Saleh might not be sentenced for months.
County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien declined to discuss any sealed documents.
"I don't know what you're talking about. As far as any sealed document, it does not exist until a court orders it unsealed,"O'Brien said.
His defense attorney, James Watson, tried to quash the rape trial and send it to another county based on pre-trial publicity featuring his client as a murder suspect, but Cain overruled his motion after the jury was seated.
Jurors began deliberating the rape charges at 3 p.m.
In that trial, which began Monday, Saleh is accused of sexually assaulting a 40-year-old woman from Zanesville, who agreed to meet Saleh on N. High Street on May 6 after conversing with him numerous times on a telephone chat line.
The single mother of three boys testified that she came to Columbus after midnight to meet Saleh while her children slept. But once they pulled her car into a parking lot to talk, Saleh demanded sex, pulled her by the hair into the back seat of her sedan, raped her and said, "If you're not going to give it, I'm going to take it."
She told jurors she did not fight back, but instead dropped Saleh off nearby and returned home. After her three teenage boys went to school, the woman checked herself into a Zanesville hospital for a rape examination.
Columbus police filed the charges on September 6, the same day homicide detectives were searching Saleh's apartment.
Saleh testified yesterday the sex was consensual until the woman demanded $150. He accused her of being a prostitute who charged him with rape for failure to pay.
Clerks in John O'Grady's office received the indictment papers on Dec. 30, but did not see a notation on the file that the papers were to be sealed with a warrant for Saleh's arrest.
Instead, the packet was hand-delivered to Saleh in jail.
"It wasn't put into an envelope and sealed. It shouldn't have happened," said Patrick J. McSweeney, a spokesman for O'Grady's office.
Prosecutors have denied the existence of the indictment ever since.
On Nov. 21, Saleh was interviewed in jail by a reporter with WCMH-TV and asked about the Popovich slaying. In that interview, Saleh said he had seen Popovich briefly at Ledo's Lounge but denied harming her or the Zanesville woman. Cain ordered Channel 4 to hand over the raw footage from that interview to McCann, the primary investigator in the Popovich slaying.
http://dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=162378
Rape suspect charged with Popovich murder in sealed indictment
By Bruce Cadwallader
The Columbus Dispatch
Thursday, January 26, 2006 5:03 PM
Prosecutors and homicide detectives who have been watching the rape trial of Adam Saleh this week are ready to hand him a sealed indictment at any moment accusing him of the murder of local model Julie Popovich last summer, The Dispatch and WBNS-TV have learned. Popovich, 20, was last seen alive on Aug. 11 at a N. High Street bar called Ledo's Lounge. Saleh, 19, was one of the last people with her in the University District. He has denied harming the woman.
But official sources have confirmed that the sealed indictment, which was mistakenly handed to Saleh in the Franklin County jail on Dec. 30, will be served on Saleh once the jury in his rape trial reaches a verdict. Prosecutors did not want the jurors to know Saleh is a suspect in the Popovich case -- to preserve his fair trial rights -- and jurors have been told not to monitor TV and newspaper accounts of the trial.
Columbus homicide detective Mike McCann has repeatedly called Saleh a suspect in the model's disappearance and searched Saleh's apartment a day after Popovich's decomposing body was found in September near Hoover Reservoir.
McCann, Detective Wayne Buck and Patrick Dorn; Kevin Horan, an FBI agent, and the senior prosecutor in charge of the Popovich case have all been watching testimony in Saleh's rape trial.
Should the jury acquit Saleh of the rape, prosecutors have been instructed to issue the indictment and ask Judge David E. Cain of Franklin County Common Pleas Court to set a high bond.
Saleh could be arraigned on the new charges on Monday. If he is convicted of the rape, Saleh might not be sentenced for months.
County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien declined to discuss any sealed documents.
"I don't know what you're talking about. As far as any sealed document, it does not exist until a court orders it unsealed,"O'Brien said.
His defense attorney, James Watson, tried to quash the rape trial and send it to another county based on pre-trial publicity featuring his client as a murder suspect, but Cain overruled his motion after the jury was seated.
Jurors began deliberating the rape charges at 3 p.m.
In that trial, which began Monday, Saleh is accused of sexually assaulting a 40-year-old woman from Zanesville, who agreed to meet Saleh on N. High Street on May 6 after conversing with him numerous times on a telephone chat line.
The single mother of three boys testified that she came to Columbus after midnight to meet Saleh while her children slept. But once they pulled her car into a parking lot to talk, Saleh demanded sex, pulled her by the hair into the back seat of her sedan, raped her and said, "If you're not going to give it, I'm going to take it."
She told jurors she did not fight back, but instead dropped Saleh off nearby and returned home. After her three teenage boys went to school, the woman checked herself into a Zanesville hospital for a rape examination.
Columbus police filed the charges on September 6, the same day homicide detectives were searching Saleh's apartment.
Saleh testified yesterday the sex was consensual until the woman demanded $150. He accused her of being a prostitute who charged him with rape for failure to pay.
Clerks in John O'Grady's office received the indictment papers on Dec. 30, but did not see a notation on the file that the papers were to be sealed with a warrant for Saleh's arrest.
Instead, the packet was hand-delivered to Saleh in jail.
"It wasn't put into an envelope and sealed. It shouldn't have happened," said Patrick J. McSweeney, a spokesman for O'Grady's office.
Prosecutors have denied the existence of the indictment ever since.
On Nov. 21, Saleh was interviewed in jail by a reporter with WCMH-TV and asked about the Popovich slaying. In that interview, Saleh said he had seen Popovich briefly at Ledo's Lounge but denied harming her or the Zanesville woman. Cain ordered Channel 4 to hand over the raw footage from that interview to McCann, the primary investigator in the Popovich slaying.