Judge Bowie wrote: "Other than the conflicting reports about who found the dynamite in Rice's [Mondo we Langa] basement, there is no evidence to suggest the dynamite was planted by police. The bottom line is that dynamite was found in Rice's basement, who found it is immaterial."
Bowie did not address at all Pheffer's other 'discoveries'. At Mondo we Langa's house Pheffer testified he found in a bedroom closet three gray Samonsite attaché cases with wires sticking out of them. Pheffer claims after finding the three attaché cases, a rope was passed through the handles and "lead it out the bedroom through the front room, outside the steps" where the cases were opened when they did not detonate.
Pheffer's dramatic discovery of wired attaché cases was not mentioned at trial nor were purported bomb parts introduced as evidence. Pheffer didn't bother to enter the attaché cases into the inventory list of the search. Nor did any other officer. Pheffer is the sole witness to 'evidence' he now claims to have found that somehow disappeared without a trace.
Pheffer also claims he found another attaché case with wires at the Panther headquarters. Pheffer insists he found "an attaché case in the front room with wires and a clothespin attached to it." Yet once again, Pheffer failed to log in the attaché cases or even record it on the search inventory list. No other officers filed reports or testified about the wired case and it was not produced at trial.
Pheffer's vanishing attaché cases and altered testimony about entering the basement during the dynamite search suggest perjury and yet his conflicting testimony was deemed 'immaterial' by Judge Bowie.
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