Cooper warrants could come out Monday
Published: Fri, Aug. 15, 2008 10:53AM
Modified Fri, Aug. 15, 2008 11:02AM
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closeRALEIGH -- Search warrants and related documents that could reveal details of the investigation into the death of Nancy Cooper will become public Monday unless prosecutors ask to keep them sealed.
Wake Superior Court Judge Donald W. Stephens sealed the warrants and related affidavits on grounds that releasing their contents could interfere with a fair trial. Stephens' order was scheduled to expire Saturday; he issued an order today extending the seal until Monday.
Stephens said the contents will become public at 2:30 p.m. Monday, unless the Wake District Attorney's Office files a motion by 1 p.m. that day to keep them sealed. If the DA files such a motion, Stephens said, he would hold a hearing Monday afternoon and then rule on whether all or part of the documents should remain sealed.
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The News & Observer has asked Stephens to release the documents. But District Attorney Colon Willoughby has indicated that he may ask that some portion of the documents remain sealed.
Stephens said today that neither he nor lawyers for the paper were available today for a hearing on the issue.
No one has been charged in the death of Cooper, 34, who disappeared July 12 from her Cary home. A walker found her body near a storm drain in a subdivision under construction.
Cooper's husband, Bradley Cooper, said he last saw her that morning when she went out for a run with a friend.
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