Court records show that he appeared in court seven times between his arrest and May 1997, when the charges were dismissed. Jordan, the rape specialist, said it is a standard investigative practice to check arrest records periodically to see whether a suspect wanted for questioning had been picked up on other charges. Cofield said he was too busy for that. You had too many cases. The workload is crazy.
Nobody has time to do that.
The investigation was limited to the patrol officer's actions. The rape squad's handling of the case has never come under departmental scrutiny. After a four-month inquiry, investigators concluded that Pressley was not truthful in saying she had not known that Jesine was sexually assaulted. Pressley contested that finding and took the case to the Police Board of Inquiry, which holds trial-like hearings. She was represented by a lawyer supplied by the Fraternal Order of Police.