Daily News | The sexual assault trial for a former Philly detective opened with clashing visions of his time on the force
Collins told jurors Monday that prosecutors will present three main witnesses. Each has accused Nordo of varying levels of assault.
One of them, Collins said — an informant in the 2012 fatal shooting of Officer Moses Walker — said Nordo steered $20,000 in reward money his way, then, years later, raped him in a Chinatown hotel room. Another man, a former prison guard, said Nordo harassed him and ultimately tried to assault him in a car. And a third man — also an informant for Nordo — said the detective tried to kiss him and touch his groin in an elevator at Police Headquarters, Collins said.
Van der Veen said each of the three witnesses had provided inconsistent and contradictory accounts over time. He also said they were “threatened” by prosecutors seeking to concoct stories in an otherwise-baseless case against Nordo. And although Common Pleas Court Judge Giovanni Campbell barred van der Veen from casting the prosecution as a political effort of reform-oriented District Attorney Larry Krasner, van der Veen told jurors that Krasner’s office was siding with witnesses who lived in the city’s “underbelly” over a detective who spent his career seeking justice for victims of violence.Nordo has denied wrongdoing, and last week rejected an offer to plead guilty to four charges.
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