Rape Victim Testifies In Littlejohn Trial

2009_05_litjohn.jpg Yesterday, a woman described a rape and attack very similar to how John Jay College student Imette St. Guillen was attacked. St. Guillen was found dead in 2006, and a bouncer at the bar she was last seen, Darryl Littlejohn, is on trial for her murder. While the woman was unable to pick out Littlejohn in a lineup, a judge allowed her to testify because the attack was so similar to St. Guillen's and another woman's. The Daily News reports that the woman described being "snatched off" Queens Boulevard, and then "the attacker handcuffed her and bundled her into a car," threatening her with a gun. "Warning her to shut up, the attacker drove her to a bedroom that sounded similar to Littlejohn's basement apartment in his mother's Jamaica home. The attacker taped a knit cap over her eyes - a key detail because Littlejohn allegedly taped over St. Guillen's eyes." After raping her, her attacker "forced her to clean up and change into shorts and a T-shirt," which had LIttlejohn's mother's DNA on it.

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This makes me wonder how many times he's done this and gotten away with it. Also, I hope allowing this testimony does not backfire on the prosecution since neither of the surviving victims was able to identify him.

No, the other victim, the one who testified earlier in this trial, did identify him both in this trial and in the one in which he was convicted of attacking her.

From that trial:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10162008/news/regionalnews/my_own_imette_ordeal_133843.htm

When asked to identify her attacker, Woodard, 22, pointed resolutely at accused homicidal bar bouncer Littlejohn in a Queens courtroom where he's standing trial for assaulting her.

"Right here," she said, wiping tears from her face. "The guy in the black shirt, tie and glasses."

You're right I misspoke. Her testimony was called into question by the defense because her initial description of her attacker did not match Littlejohn.

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Is there a deep enough pit in hell for this piece of rubbish?

DLj was framed because she was killed by Dorian with his political clout. DLj probably just dipped her in the mens room but did not kill her. Dorian was stoned on coke and he did it. She wanted DLj as a real man and she was horned dogged. Bid deal.... she got what she wanted and was asking for from DLj. Its the same as the rest of them.

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