Thursday, April 29, 2010

Judge Releases Car Seized After Le Slaying

NEW HAVEN — Someone is getting Raymond J. Clark III’s red Ford Mustang.

But it’s not clear yet to whom the car belonging to the only suspect in the slaying of Yale graduate student Annie Le will go.

In a Superior Court session that lasted about 30 seconds Wednesday, Judge Roland Fasano granted a motion by Clark’s attorney, Joseph E. Lopez, to release the car. They did not say where the car would go.

Search warrant affidavits released in December in the Le slaying showed police found red-stained items in Clark’s car, a blood-stained kitchen floor in his apartment, and more items with blood-like stains in another car he rode in the day Le disappeared.

Le was found Sept. 13 behind the wall of a Yale research building.

Regarding the car, the arrest warrant affidavit for Clark said: “Officers observed within the vehicle, in plain view, a pair of white sneakers with unknown reddish stains, a blue in color unknown garment similar to hospital ‘scrubs’ and a dark in color garbage bag.”

Police in September towed the car away for testing.

Clark is charged with murder. He has pleaded not guilty in the case. He was in court today in an orange prison jumpsuit.

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