Appeals panel considers van der Sloot’s confession
By the CNN Wire Staff
August 20, 2010 6:39 p.m. EDT
(CNN) — A panel of Peruvian judges is considering whether to uphold the confession of Joran van der Sloot, who is accused of killing a 21-year-old woman.
The three-judge appellate panel is expected to hand down a decision in about a week.
“We believe we did a good job demonstrating that there wasn’t an official translator and that his attorney (at the time of the confession) did not have a document accrediting her as his attorney,” van der Sloot’s attorney, Maximo Altez Navarro, told In
Session on Friday.
Van der Sloot is jailed pending trial on charges of first-degree murder and robbery in the May 30 death in of Stefany Flores, a 21-year-old student.
Joran van der Sloot in the blogosphere
Birmingham, Al (WIAT) Joran van der Sloot. Natalee Holloway. Stephany Flores.
One is sitting in a Peruvian prison. One was found murdered in his Lima hotel room. One is missing after being seen with him five years ago on a trip to Aruba.
Van der Sloot is in the middle of the complicated investigation of his alleged murder of 21 year old Stephany Flores. He remains the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Both of those circumstances are filled with questions and legal complications.
But there’s little doubt in the blogosphere where the intertwined stories of the three continue to light up the web.
Babble.com says it’s a site for parents. One of their current lead articles is entitled “Why the parents of Joran van der Sloot’s victims may never get closure”
Read past the article to the comments and you’ll possibly be startled by the ferocity of the response and the frustration and impatience with the slowness of the legal systems in both Peru and Aruba.
One sample: “Lying is Joran’s alibi. It worked when he killed Natalee, and he is hoping it will work again. Joran is a psychopath, and his mother believes the part he plays for her is “real” Joran. Oh momma.. the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves…”
There are dozens of other sites commenting on, or even focusing on van der Sloot and his victims.
An example that precedes his current troubles in Peru is devoted to the five year old disappearance of Natalee Holloway, the Mountain Brook teen who disappeared on a trip to Aruba…after last being seen in van der Sloot’s company.
Blogs For Natalee has been collecting and updating information on the case for most of the five years since Natalee’s disappearance. It claims 435951 Posts in 8070 Topics by 2154 Members. It stresses it has no official connection to the Holloway family.
And then, there’s Facebook. In a world where anything and everything has a Facebook page, why should the van der Sloot case be any different.
Here’s a sampling:
http://http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joran-van-der-sloot/106167646085097
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stephany-Flores-Ramirez-and-Joran-Van-der-Sloot-Case/122041101165784?v=wall
Van der Sloot Update: Where is Stephany Flores’ Missing $11,000?
July 13, 2010
NEW YORK (CBS) Police sources in Peru have disclosed to CBS News that Stephany Flores, Joran van der Sloot’s alleged Peruvian murder victim, had won approximately $10,000 at casinos in the week leading up to her death and also had been given $1,000 from her father to purchase a laptop that she never got a chance to buy.
But police sources say that this money has never been found.
Flores reportedly kept her money in the glove compartment of her car. Police documents dated June 3 obtained by CBS News show the results of the search of Stephany Flores’ car: no money was found in it.
Did Joran van der Sloot take that money?
The sources say that this was the true motive for the brutal murder of Flores: van der Sloot was after her money. Police say this means that van der Sloot’s alleged murder of Flores was premeditated.
But in van der Sloot’s confession – which he subsequently recanted in a Dutch newspaper – police say he told them that he became enraged after Flores found information on his laptop about his links to the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway.
According to Peruvian newspaper La Republica, van der Sloot told police, “I did not want to do it. The girl intruded into my private life. She had no right. I went to her and I hit her. She was scared. We argued and she tried to escape. I grabbed her by the neck and I hit her.”
Crimesider spoke with ex-FBI agent Paul Lindsay, who worked for many years investigating serial killers. Lindsay believes that if reports of van der Sloot’s confession are accurate, van der Sloot created the story of the e-mail and the confrontation as a way to justify his actions.
Police say he smashed in the face of Flores, the student he met playing poker before leading her back to his hotel room. According to police, van der Sloot then strangled her, threw her to the floor and emptied her wallet.
Stephany Flores’ death occurred exactly five years after Alabama teen Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba, a case which van der Sloot is the main suspect. The Dutchman faces charges of first-degree murder and robbery for the May 30 death of Stephany Flores.
Will van der Sloot Ever See The Inside Of An Alabama Courtroom?
Birmingham, AL (WIAT)- As Joran van der Sloot sits in a Peruvian prison awaiting trial for murder, some wonder if he’ll ever set foot in an American federal courtroom to face extortion charges.
In addition to facing murder charges in the gruesome death of Stephany Flores in Peru, the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway has also been charged with attempting to extort money from Natalee’s family.
Federal investigators say they caught van der Sloot in a sting operation, saying he tried to secure hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for information that would lead authorities to the location of Natalee Holloway’s body.
But with a murder trial that could send him to prison for up to 30 years, there’s concern van der Sloot may not stand trial for extortion in Alabama. Extraditing van der Sloot is a complicated process.
Former US Attorney Doug Jones, who has seen a number of extradition cases, says there’s a good chance van der Sloot will be extradited. But he says there are a lot of factors to take into account.
PG on fact finding Holloway : “No evidence of negative role of the van der Straten ‘
July 10 , 2010 , 12:10 ( GMT -04:00 )
ORANGE CITY – There is no evidence that the alleged relationship between former commissioner Jan van der Straten , and the family Van der Sloot , played a negative role in the investigation into the disappearance of Natalee Holloway . This allowed Attorney General Rob Pietersz know yesterday afternoon .
by our reporter
Alex Lacle
Statements by former Justice Minister Rudy Croes (MEP ) in late 2008, the Public Prosecutor (OM) in response to an inquiry to start the initial phase of the investigation into the disappearance of Holloway . According to Croes would Van der Street research during the crucial early stages have deliberately hindered . ” The statements of Croes could not be proven , “says Advocate General at Taco Stein Amigoe . ” A relationship between Van der Straten and van der Sloot appeared not to be there . ”
In a comment to this newspaper says former commissioner Jan van der Straten ” delighted ” to the conclusions of the report. ” I and my family are seriously affected by the remarks of Croes and the subsequent media coverage . My good name is besmirched . ” Moreover, he stresses that what the grief his family has done in the dwarfed by the grief of the family Holloway . Van der Straten was its alleged role as a direct person , earlier by the Public informed of the findings of fact . Whether the former police chief also been informed of the contents of the full report, he would not say . ” It is so agreed with the prosecution . I’m going to say anything about the content . ” Stein said Attorney General Van der Straten ” just know ” about the content of the final report but had no access .
At the start of the inquiry was announced that the results in outline be published after completion of the review. In February this year it was announced that the final report of the National Criminal Investigation was at the OM . Attorney General Pietersz , who instituted the inquiry in early 2009 , then did not respond “because the report should be discussed internally first . With the recent report about this case to the Prosecutor dismissed . ” We see no reason to continue it . ”
Joran
The Holloway case was recently back in the spotlight by the arrest of Joran van der Sloot in Peru . The 22 -year-old sitting there in custody on suspicion of robbery in Stephany Flores on May 31 Remarkably , the murder of Flores exactly five years after the disappearance of Natalee Holloway committed. Holloway disappeared in 2005 after a night out in nightclub Carlos and Charlies . Joran was the last seen her . He is still the prime suspect in this case.
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Federal grand jury in Birmingham indicts Joran van der Sloot on extortion, fraud charges
Published: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 3:35 PM
Updated: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 4:09 PM
An Alabama federal grand jury in Birmingham has indicted Joran van der Sloot on extortion and wire-fraud charges in connection with the disappearance in Aruba of Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway.
The indictment, announced today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Birmingham, formally charges the Dutchman of allegations released earlier this month in a federal complaint. Federal authorities contend van der Sloot exploited the fear of Holloway’s mother, Beth, that she would never find her daughter’s body or know what happened to her unless she paid him $250,000.
Judge Declares Request Joran Unfounded
Rechter verklaart verzoek Joran ongegrond
LIMA – Het verzoek van Joran van der Sloot om de resultaten van het politieonderzoek nietig te verklaren, wordt niet ingewilligd. Dat maakte rechter Wilder Casique Alvizuri, die het verzoek behandelde, vrijdag bekend.
Van der Sloot had om de nietigverklaring verzocht omdat naar zijn zeggen het hoofd moordzaken van de onderzoekspolitie, kolonel Miguel Engel Canlla, hem had gedwongen. Er zou geen officiële vertaler aanwezig zijn geweest bij het verhoor en zijn advocaat zou op de hand van de politie zijn geweest.
Ook zou zijn laptop geopend zijn zonder toestemming van een rechter. Rechter Casique oordeelde dat bij alle verhoren de officiële vertaler Maurice Steins aanwezig was, dat er een door de staat aangewezen advocaat aanwezig was en dat er een officier van justitie bij was om te beoordelen of het onderzoek volgens de wet verliep.
TRANSLATION:
LIMA – The application of Joran van der Sloot to the results of police investigations to annul is not accepted. That made Judge Casique Alvizuri Wilder, who considered the request, said Friday.
Van der Sloot had asked for the annulment because he said to the head of the homicide investigation police, Colonel Miguel Angel Canlla, had compelled him. There was no official translator present at the hearing and his lawyer would hand the police have been.
Also, opened his laptop without permission from a judge. Casique court ruled that all questioning the official translator Maurice Stein was present, that a state-appointed lawyer was present and that there was a prosecutor in the investigation to determine whether the law passed.
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