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Duke lax and accusations

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I 'm baffled how did a Grand Jury move to bring charges against these Men. I think The DA should be investigated, did he present this Dna evidence to the Grand Jury.
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It appears that neither the Grand Jury nor the Defense had much of the evidence the DA had. How this guy can go without charge of his own is beyond me. While the players probably wont get any money from the stripper they might have a case against the city.

Unfortunately, the other 'victim' in this is all the ladies of various race and ilk who are abused and raped in comparable situations. This crap just builds another layer of skepticism around the next set of charges that come forward. She is a piece of work.
 
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Updated: Dec. 15, 2006, 2:36 AM ET
Accuser pregnant; defense wants photo lineup tossed


Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. --The woman at the center of the Duke lacrosse rape case is pregnant and due to give birth any day, roughly nine months after the team party where she says she was raped by three men in a bathroom.
The pregnancy was confirmed late Thursday by a person familiar with the case, speaking to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. Both Fox News and WRAL-TV in Raleigh reported she gave birth Thursday night.
There had been no prior indication the woman, a 28-year-old college student who already has children, was even pregnant. She has not spoken in public since granting a single interview to the News & Observer of Raleigh shortly after the party.
The person who confirmed the pregnancy to the AP had no information about the father. Defense attorneys have stressed for months that no sex occurred at the party and they have cited DNA testing that found genetic material from several males in the accuser's body and her underwear -- but none from any member of the lacrosse team.
Calls to attorneys representing the three indicted players were not returned Thursday night. Nor were calls and messages left with District Attorney Mike Nifong.
Medical records included in a defense motion filed Thursday were not made public. It wasn't clear whether a pregnancy test was taken immediately after the party.
The development came just hours after defense attorneys filed a motion saying the woman misidentified her alleged attackers in a photo lineup that was "an incoherent mass of contradiction and error." The attorneys asked a judge to bar prosecutors from using the photo lineup at their clients' trial and prevent the accuser from identifying the players from the witness stand.
Duke University law professor James E. Coleman Jr. said the case would be "effectively dismissed" if the court finds the lineup inadmissible "and rules that it is so suggestive that there can't be an in-court identification."
Within Thursday's motion, the defense highlighted what it considers numerous holes in the accuser's story.
Among the details cited are examples of how the accuser's story changed in the hours and days after the party; that she has a history of bipolar disorder; that she identified two people as having attended the party who were not there; and that she identified four attackers during the April photo lineup.
An earlier defense motion argued the lineup was "unnecessarily suggestive" because the accuser was shown photos of only lacrosse players.
Thursday's motion adds details about efforts by police investigators and Nifong to assist the accuser in identifying the three men she said gang-raped her in a bathroom at a March 13 team party where she had been hired to perform as a dancer.
Based in part on those identifications, Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans were indicted on charges of rape, kidnapping and sexual offense. All three players have insisted they are innocent.
Investigators conducted three photo lineups, according to the defense motion. In the first two, the accuser failed to identify Evans and did not identify Seligmann as an attacker, despite being shown photos of both men.
Defense lawyers argue that the third lineup, conducted April 4 at the Durham Police Department, violated departmental policies and the defendants' constitutional due process rights because it included only pictures of those at the party.
A hearing is scheduled Friday, but it is unclear whether the defense might argue their motions filed Wednesday and Thursday. The hearing had been expected mostly to deal with scheduling.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2697766&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
 
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Onebuckfan;687273; said:
I 'm baffled how did a Grand Jury move to bring charges against these Men.
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Based largely on the allegations made by the stripper, her physical condition and the like situational evidence. (Note what is missing - DNA). As was mentioned earlier in the thread getting an indictment is an easy thing to to do as a Prosecutor. The more difficult task of making the charges stick is what we are seeing unfold, OK - break down like a house of cards, right now.
Onebuckfan;687273; said:
I think The DA should be investigated, did he present this Dna evidence to the Grand Jury.
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As the DNA evidence takes time to process, and it was only recently revealed the answer to that is clearly no, the charges were brought in the absence of DNA testing. This is normal. The total lack of response by the DA in the face of these recent revelations is somewhat out of the ordinary considering his earlier free-form use of the media. Actually, strike that, it is ironic yet understandable that Nifong is silent on such an obvious mismatch between accusation and actuality.
Onebuckfan;687273; said:
Its been reported he never interviewed the "victim". Maybe he should pay the fees, he did get reelected with help from this case <smirk>.MaybeJesse Jackson will come down and help stop this wrongful prosecution.
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I think any payment will come from the public coffers should charges of wrongful charge / prosecution be brought by any of the accused families. Meanwhile Nifong's career is effectively done at this point - or perhaps he is waiting on a paternity test to salvage his professional image.
 
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I heard that the reason Nifong is still pressing this obvious loser of a case is that he has 30-40 ethics violations (based on this case alone) reported to the state bar review board. What was explained on the radio in Charlotte by a local law professor is that as long as he keeps the investigation and the prospect of a trial on-going the ethics charges against him will most likely not be pressed. They are traditionally (the charges) only investigated after the trial is over. Why you would want to dig a deeper hole for yourself I have no idea. However he seems to have a talent for it based on the story below. Do I hear "recall" anyone????


http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/521773.html

Head of DNA lab says he and Nifong agreed not to report results
By Joseph Neff, Benjamin Niolet and Anne Blythe, Staff writers
The head of a private DNA laboratory said under oath today that he and District Attorney Mike Nifong agreed not to report DNA results favorable to Duke lacrosse players charged with rape.
Brian Meehan, director of DNA Security of Burlington, said his lab found DNA from unidentified men in the underwear, pubic hair and rectum of the woman who said she was gang-raped at a lacrosse party in March. Nurses at Duke Hospital collected the samples a few hours after the alleged assault. Meehan said the DNA did not come from Reade Seligmann, David Evans, or Collin Finnerty, who have been charged with rape and sexual assault in the case.
Meehan struggled to say why he didn?t include the favorable evidence in a report dated May 12, almost a month after Seligmann and Finnerty had been indicted. He cited concerns about the privacy of the lacrosse players, his discussions at several meetings with Nifong, and the fact that he didn?t know whose DNA it was.
Under questioning by Jim Cooney, a defense attorney for Seligmann, Meehan admitted that his report violated his laboratory?s standards by not reporting results of all tests.
Did Nifong and his investigators know the results of all the DNA tests? Cooney asked.
?I believe so,? Meehan said.
?Did they know the test results excluded Reade Seligmann?? Cooney asked.
?I believe so,? Meehan said.
Was the failure to report these results the intentional decision of you and the district attorney? Cooney asked.
?Yes,? Meehan replied.
At that answer, several people in the packed courtroom clapped. Superior Court Judge W. Osmond Smith III warned the standing-room only crowd to be quiet or leave.
Meehan?s testimony differed from a statement Nifong made at the beginning of today?s hearing.
?The first I had heard of this particular situation was when I was served with this particular motion? on Wednesday, Nifong told the judge. After court, Nifong clarified his remarks to say that he knew about the DNA results.
"And we were trying to, just as Dr. Meehan said, trying to avoid dragging any names through the mud but at the same time his report made it clear that all the information was available if they wanted it and they have every word of it,? Nifong said.
Joseph B. Cheshire V, a lawyer for Evans, said he was troubled by today?s testimony.
?If any of the lacrosse players were excluded, they simply wouldn?t put it in the report,? he said. ?It raises some troublesome questions about (Nifong), who has an obligation to disclose exculpatory evidence and turn it over to the defense.? In a response to reports that the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case gave birth recently, UNC Health care issued a statement at about 1:30 p.m. saying that the woman is at UNC Hospitals for care related to her pregnancy but has not given birth
 
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Jeffrey Jones as Nifong
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usatoday

Defense attorney: Rape charges against Duke lacrosse players dropped

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) ? A prosecutor dismissed rape charges Friday against three Duke University lacrosse players accused of attacking a stripper at a team party, a defense attorney said.

Joseph Cheshire, an attorney for one of the three players, said charges of kidnapping and sexual offense remain in place. District Attorney Mike Nifong did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

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I havent read through this thread but what a dumb fucking bitch.

I was born in Wilmington not too far from Durham, and as you all know the city is mostly black and Duke is almost all white.

So this dumb bitch could have possibly ignited a fire storm.

She wont get the punishment she deserves, but I hope she has fun in hell.
 
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Re: "According to court papers filed Friday by district attorney Mike Nifong, the accuser told a prosecution investigator on Thursday that she now does not know if she was penetrated during the alleged attack."

How may times is the bitch allowed to change her story?

Re: "Prosecutors dropped rape charges Friday against three Duke University lacrosse players accused of attacking an exotic dancer at a team party, but the three still face kidnapping and sexual offense charges."

"Both rape and sexual offense carry the same possible sentence of up to 40 years in prison, while kidnapping is a lesser felony punishable by up to 17? years behind bars."

Unfortunately the Duke players are not "out of the woods" yet.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2706267
 
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