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11 Facts About Daniel Holtzclaw

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Daniel Ken Holtzclaw was born on December 10,1986 and is a convicted rapist.

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Daniel Holtzclaw was born December 10,1986, in the US territory of Guam, to Eric, a white American, and a Japanese mother, Kumiko Holtzclaw.

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Daniel Holtzclaw's father is a lieutenant with the police department in Enid, Oklahoma.

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Daniel Holtzclaw played linebacker at Eastern Michigan University, where he graduated with a degree in criminal justice in 2010.

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Daniel Holtzclaw testified that she had begged him to stop and was afraid for her life.

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The detectives then reviewed Daniel Holtzclaw's automatically recorded history of running names through the department's two databases, looking specifically for people who had been checked out multiple times, and they contacted those women.

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Daniel Holtzclaw, who had been on paid administrative leave until he was charged in August 2014, was fired in January 2015 and his trial began on November 2,2015.

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The DNA that was found was skin DNA; Daniel Holtzclaw's DNA was not found in the same area of clothing where the 17-year-old accuser's skin DNA was found.

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In February 2016, website SB Nation published a lengthy profile of Daniel Holtzclaw that focused on his college football career.

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The piece was immediately criticized as being apologetic and sympathetic to Daniel Holtzclaw; it was pulled within hours of publication.

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In 2017, KOKH-TV reported that the District Attorney and a Deputy Police Chief were aware that a DNA lab expert who testified against Daniel Holtzclaw made mistakes and that an unknown male DNA profile was among samples tested but not mentioned during the trial.