In late May 2007, one of Dr. Nouri's Chaldean patients asked Nouri if he would hire his 19-year-old daughter. Dr. Nouri and his wife, Rouwaida Nouri, who managed his medical practice, agreed to hire the young woman for two days a week to help with filing in their medical office.
On June 22, 2007, on just her sixth day of work, the young woman alleged that sometime between 7:15 and 7:23 p.m., Dr. Nouri sexually assaulted her with his hand in an exam room. How was the young woman sure of the time? She said she noticed the times on clocks in the office and in her car when she left. At 7:33 p.m., she called her boyfriend in a parking lot 2 miles from the office, and told him she had been assaulted.
The woman's parents took her to police and to a hospital. She refused to allow a rape exam, saying she was a virgin and such an exam would "un-virginize me," records show.
Records eventually obtained by the defense showed that Dr. Nouri was in his office from 7:06 to 7:27 p.m., continuously dictating over the phone to a medical dictation firm.
Charges were brought against Dr. Nouri. If convicted, he would likely serve many years in prison. The accuser and her boyfriend testified at trial. Defense lawyers tried to show that the young woman had concocted the story because she had been sexually active and was trying to cover up her loss of virginity. The woman was from a conservative Chaldean Catholic family, and virginity is highly prized in their faith.
The woman and her boyfriend repeatedly claimed on the witness stand that she was a virgin, a central issue in the case.
Initially, the jury was hung, with jurors twice asking to review the accuser's testimony. On July 2, 2008, they found Nouri guilty.
After the verdict, Dr. Nouri's defense counsel asked jurors how they thought Dr. Nouri could have been dictating over the phone at the same time his accuser claimed he had been assaulting her. Jurors said that since they couldn't reconcile the time line, they chose to disregard it. "They said they then just decided to go by their gut," said Dr. Nouri's defense counsel.
Dr. Nouri was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for sexual assault convictions .
While Dr. Nouri was incarcerated, he was repeatedly assaulted by fellow prisoners. His nose was broken and his teeth were cracked. He was hospitalized for three days and received stitches to his face, according to a federal lawsuit filed against Oakland County. (Oakland County corporation counsel Keith Lerminiaux acknowledged that Nouri had been assaulted in the jail but said he was the aggressor in one of the attacks.)
One day in late 2010, while Dr. Nouri sat in a prison cell, his accuser's boyfriend spotted Dr. Nouri's wife and four children and was suddenly overcome with guilt. It turns out the young man had lied about his sexual history with the accuser and wanted to make amends. The young man went to Dr. Nouri's attorney and admitted that he and the accuser had been sexually active for months leading up to the allegation and that they lied on the witness stand.
Dr. Nouri's attorney asked the man to secretly record conversations with the accuser. The man met with her in March, and while recording their conversation, he told her he was worried private investigators were looking into the perjury. The accuser, according to the attorney and prosecutors who have heard the recording, admitted she lied on the stand but instructed the man to keep denying it if he's questioned. She told him that if authorities discover credit card receipts showing she was at local motels, she will say she lent the card to a friend. She also discussed feigning a mental breakdown so she would be hospitalized, a tactic she says she hoped would discourage a continued investigation.
By this time, Dr. Nouri had served more than three years behind bars. Prosecutors, noting Nouri had been convicted, offered him a deal: If he pleaded no contest to a low-level misdemeanor assault -- with no probation-reporting requirements and no restrictions on obtaining his medical license -- he could be free within hours and get it expunged after five years. It took Nouri, who was sitting in a prison cell at the Kinross Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula, two days to agree. "I'm thinking, 'No, I didn't do anything,' " he recalled. "But then I think, 'I take this and I can see my kids in a day or two.' I hadn't seen them in three years. I took it." The choice was really no choice at all: "Which one would you choose? Be in jail for something you didn't do or go immediately?" Nouri said. "We will fight the very minor misdemeanor." Dr. Nouri was removed from the sex offender registry.
Now, another lie has surfaced. When Dr.Nouri was sentenced to prison in April 2010, the judge read a letter signed by his accuser's priest. "A young girl has had her youth stolen," the letter read. "I have told her to forgive Labeed Nouri. She has forgiven him, but she needs closure on this terrible ordeal. ... It is time to grant her wish of getting her justice and put Labeed Nouri in jail where he deserves to be."
It turns out the pastor denies writing the letter. "I have never written any letter," Kejbou told a Detroit newspaper. "Anybody can forge a signature."
Dr. Nouri's accuser, who continues to maintain she was sexually assaulted, has become a licensed practical nurse. She is not named in the newspaper accounts because she has not been charged with a crime.
And now, Dr. Nouri is on a mission: he's trying to get his accuser charged with perjury. "She took three years from me," he said. "I can never get them back. My youngest daughter was a baby when I went away. I never saw her first step, heard her say her first word. It's my turn for justice."
Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper, who dropped felony charges against Nouri and sought his release from prison when she learned of the perjury, said she is awaiting police reports before deciding whether to file any charges against the woman. "We moved heaven and earth to get him out immediately when we learned of this," Cooper said.
SOURCES:
http://www.freep.com/article/20110829/NEWS03/108290349/Doctor-jailed-3-years-wants-charges-sex-assault-accuser
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/29017638/detail.html
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$100 they don't prosecute her. I bet they say not enough evidence.
' ... "We moved heaven and earth to get him out immediately when we learned of this," Cooper said.'
Another lie. They got him to plead guilty to a lesser charge, of which he may well be entirely innocent.
The anonymous young woman must be regarded as a dangerous psychopath who planned and executed a vicious and premeditated attack on an innocent man simply so that she might not face the censure of her parents and co-religionists. This is typical of the attitudes of far too many women: men are expendable and to be sacrificed without a moments thought or hesitation for the sake of their interests, desires, comfort or convenience.
Because no one should be surprised, since men have always known what women are like, it is understandable, as in capable of being comprehended, that the young woman would do such a thing but it beggars belief that any male would be an accomplice to such a dreadful deed.
If, indeed, the prosecutor said she lied at trial, as the news account states, then she should be charged. But just as a caution, everything here is just "alleged" until there is an adjudication, or as in Hofstra, a sworn admission.
Forced to accept a misdemeanor plea deal. Prosecutors, noting Nouri had been convicted, offered him a deal: If he pleaded no contest to a low-level misdemeanor assault –
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Prosecutors do not take any responsibility for their actions. Prosecutors are never held accountable and they are rarely disbarred. This is not the land of the free, it is home to the 3 million imprisoned, Prison Industrial Complex. Prosecutors only wanted to cover their ass, rather than dismiss the charges they offer a misdemeanor, how insulting is that. This is not justice this is Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. Prosecutors should care about justice and not just racking up convictions and increasing their rape numbers. Dr. Nouri is clearly the victim and he was victimized twice at the hands of the government prosecution by being
Dr. Nouri was nearly killed in jail because of a False Rape Lie.
Now, another lie has surfaced. When Dr.Nouri was sentenced to prison in April 2010, the judge read a letter signed by his accuser's priest. "A young girl has had her youth stolen," the letter read. "I have told her to forgive Labeed Nouri. She has forgiven him, but she needs closure on this terrible ordeal. ... It is time to grant her wish of getting her justice and put Labeed Nouri in jail where he deserves to be."
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To the false accuser in this case I hope you are sent to prison where you belong.
John 8:44 reads
YOU are from YOUR father the Devil, and YOU wish to do the desires of YOUR father. That one was a manslayer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of [the lie].
From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, for hanging. A man of eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft; dozens languished in jail for months without trials until the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts subsided. Suspects began to see confession as a way to avoid the gallows. Persons who scoffed at accusations of witchcraft risked becoming targets of accusations themselves. Among the thirty accusers of Burroughs was nineteen-year-old Mercy Lewis. Lewis offered unusually vivid testimony against Burroughs. Lewis told the court that Burroughs flew her to the top of a mountain and, pointing toward the surrounding land, promised her all the kingdoms if only she would sign in his book (a story very similar to that found in Matthew 4:8). By early autumn of 1692, Salem's lust for blood was diminishing. Doubts were developing as to how so many respectable people could be guilty. The educated elite of the colony began efforts to end the witch-hunting hysteria published what has been called "America's first tract on evidence," a work entitled Cases of Conscience, which argued that it "were better that ten suspected witches should escape than one innocent person should be condemned. By the time the witchhunt ended, nineteen convicted witches were executed and at least four accused witches had died in prison, and one man, Giles Corey, had been pressed to death. About one to two hundred other persons were arrested and imprisoned on witchcraft charges. Two dogs were executed as suspected accomplices of witches. Scholars have noted accusing families stood to gain property from the convictions of accused witches. Chief Justice Stoughton who was the presiding judge over the hearings was rewarded by later becoming the next governor of Massachusetts.
Dr. Nouri is clearly the victim and he was victimized twice at the hands of the government prosecution by being forced to take a plea deal.
Archivist and Mr. Gruff please visit here;
http://mensrightsboard.blogspot.com/2011/08/former-ucd-official-pleads-no-contest.html
I hope Dr.Nouri files a lawsuit against his false accuser.
Anonymous Aug 30, 2011 2:07:00 PM:
Thank you for the link.
Prosecutors only offer these "deals" when they know they're going to lose, and to try to protect the county from lawsuits. You see, this man had been falsely imprisoned for 3 years but if they can get him to plead guilty to something the judge will give him timed served on that charge which will account for the imprisonment and he won't be able to sue for false imprisonment. They do this all of the time even when they know the defendant is guilty of nothing.
I'm curious, why was my post at 3.26 removed?
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Wow this is soooo sad, What kind of justice system do we have... and the jury should be ashamed of themselves going on a gut feeling..Is this the only justice that this man will get pleading to a lesser charge?Thats just B.S!!! May God Be With Him and get the justice that he deserves.Hopefully that girl get to serve 3 years in jail.What a lieing Tr*** shame on her as well. Hes right who is going to give him those 3 years back ???NOONE
@7.48- there was nothing improper about the comment. I simply said that the female should be imprisoned, have her citizenship stipped and then deported if she was not a natural born citizen.She's committed a felony.
Dr. Nouri,
I can not relate to what you're going through, nor understand the impact of emotional scars it has caused to you, your family, and close friends. You were cheated...sold out by the legal system...& extorted of your nobility and well known status. I think that majority of society does recognize that.
Coping with being wrongfully accused and slowly trying to put the missing pieces of your broken life back together may not be an easy path. Of course, there will be the individuals who thrive on the possibilities or "what if's" in the situation being true. This will be the devil trying to get into your head. With God's protection, that is impossible.
I've not yet met you before, although greatly empathize for your situation. My words of advice to you, which come straight from the heart are to allow karma to take it's role. I'm not saying you should not assist in having it take place, but eventually justice will play it's role. It is easy to feel vengeful especially when your character and integrity has been held at stake. What you must remember, is justice will prevail. I suggest you contact local news stations to get awareness out into the community, and clear up any misconceptions people may or might have. God Bless you and your family during this mountain of hardship in your lives
Warmest Regards,
Fallon Jamil
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