Posted on 04/11/2007 7:46:54 AM PDT by Howlin
Pinging with today’s stories. Too many to post. Link here to roundup at LieStoppers Board.
http://z9.invisionfree.com/LieStoppers_Board/index.php?showtopic=2933
Translation: “Uh, heh heh, we’re happy they’re innocent, heh, nothing to see here, move along! Anyone want some cake? Hey, how about those basketball recruits? Boy, has it been cold lately! Heh heh.”
}:-)4
Several posted comments have leapt out at me:
COOPER: I think that -- I think that they believed the belief occurred as she was telling these things. And they don't know, but they've worked real hard with her, but it just doesn't make sense. You can't piece it together.
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"Since we haven't gone through a normal legal process, we don't know what really happened," said Duke biology professor Sheryl Broverman. "The fact the charges were dropped doesn't mean nothing happened. It just means information wasn't collected appropriately enough to go forward."
The reaction was mixed in the accuser's neighborhood, in South Central Durham.
"I do believe something happened but we don't know," said a neighbor, Lafardella David, 68, a retired chef. "No one will ever know.
"Money is involved," he said in a reference to the status of the families of the accused. "If you got the money you can't do no wrong."
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Mayor Bill Bell, meanwhile, declined to join Stith and professor Coleman in calling for Nifong's resignation. He said the State Bar's ongoing disciplinary process against the district attorney should be allowed to unfold.
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But John Fitzpatrick, an attorney and president of Durham Criminal Defense Lawyers Association who has been a strong supporter of Nifong through both primary and general elections, said he thought Cooper went a little far when he used the word "innocent."
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BUT KC'S BLOGPOST of this morning is an excellent capper.
This forum has brought a lot of people the chance to grow through knowledge and experience. If it happens once shame on them, if it happens twice, shame on me. Our pledge says “liberty and justice for ALL”.
I’m glad I met you, so to speak. My life is richer for it.
I don't think of myself as a victim over having had experiences similar to the Duke Young Men; I know you don't either.
But having had such experiences, and having gone through the zillions of thoughts and first-hand experiences of being falsely accused, I don't think I was half as noble as these three young men, formerly, at Duke have been.
May they continue ever in honor and walk the path. Blessings upon their families and those who stood at their sides.
My son was the hero. I was, shall we say, less inclined to be forgiving (of course, I got the bill). I have spent the last four years trying to be worthy of his example when it should have been the other way around. I have also learned not to jump to conclusions — it’s a lousy way to exercise, and one generally winds up straining something — like the truth. ;-)
Just to follow up on Wendy Murphy.
Yesterday her official position was that if the accuser lied, then she should be prosecuted and since that wasn’t happening, she was obviosly paid off.
Margery Egan commented about that in today’s Boston Herald.
http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=194316&srvc=home
Wendy is really portraying herself as a nutjob over this case. I’d have to equate her as the stick-man version of Rosie O’Donut.
Did she really say that?
Who is having her on, so I can watch for her!
I agree with you about Cooper. I was shocked like everyone that he was so honest and direct (using the word innocent for example).
Do you or others think Cooper is running for Governor? I have been out of town and thus out of the loop.
I don’t know who has her slated, but since she is a paid analyst for Fox you will most likely see there at least once every two days.
I always felt she was a bitch, but now I’m also starting to believe she’s nuts.
You were being a mama bear.
I concur with you about not jumping to conclusions. I and my family have been through the wringer a few times, and while Lady Justice walks steadily and deliberately, most often she carries her scales into the light of day.
During and throughout these trials and day after day "waits" under the pressure, I would recall the words to a song I taught in my Sunday school classrooms --
"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as Eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint, Teach me Lord, Teach me Lord, to wait."
It was my restorative in those moments when I wanted to lash out.
You are passing judgement, IMO.
Finnerty left when the strippers arrived. Did he do the right thing?
Wow!! I do not live in Durham, but I recall Melanie Sill and others insisting that CGM had made statements that were inflammatory but irrelevant. What liars! That would have been HUGE fact.
The accounting for this mess will go on for years.
Link to new thread for Saturday morning.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1817192/posts?page=4
There is unaccounted for time, after Crystal and Kim left 610 N Buchanan, and which had nothing to do with any LaCrosse players. And, there are all kinds of unaccounted for time after Crystal's release from the hospital.
And that she still performed an "event" a week or so after the event.
My theory on Crystal's changing stories: She continued engaging in activities which she then attributed to the Duke 3.
It is entirely possible, that performing for the Duke LaCrosse players left an imprint upon her -- that she had possibly performed for the politest (or nerdiest, your choice) group of "clients" she ever had. The contrast could have stuck in her craw, and traumatized her through the recognition of what her life had become.
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