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"You could argue that something might have happened in that period between 12:10 and 12:30. The defense would say, though, that because she's smiling in the photo taken at 12:31, it would be hard to believe that she had been brutally raped," he said.

The TV commentators will soon interview psychologists and womens' studies professors to opine on the "Pagliacci Syndrome."

The woman is smiling or laughing on the outside, they will say, only to mask her tears and pain resulting from having just been raped in a humiliating and brutal manner.

In some ways it is like the "Stockholm Syndrome," these psychologists will say, in that the woman's emotions are the opposite of what an uneducated person would expect to see in such a situation.

These folks will then send letters to the DA's office indicating they are available to work as expert witnesses and stating their hourly fees for such work.

I'm afraid to type in Pagliacci Syndrome on my computer.

One never knows when a DA might make your life public.

That sounds like something I don't want to be doing research on.

To your point, did you notice all the shows on how hard it is to be a minister's wife. After one shot her husband with their kids there. I'm not joking, CNN did an hour long show on how Minister's wives suffer and how they feel like they have to be perfect. All the big papers had pieces highlighting how it's, well, like a syndrome.

Don't hold your breath waiting for articles on the pressures of student-athletes at the most competitive schools!

"You could argue that something might have happened in that period between 12:10 and 12:30. "

Yes, but it is extremely likely that it did NOT involve Seligmann. One photo shows the girls dancing at 12:01, another shows them walking out of the house at 12:04. At least two or three minutes would have passed before they were talked in to returning and went in to the bathroom, which takes us to 12:07. Seligmann made his first phone call at 12:07, then at 12:09, 12:11, and to the cab company at 12:14. In order to catch the taxi a block and a half away, he would have to leave the house by about 12:16. He entered the cab at 12:19, was at the ATM at 12:24, got some fast food somewhere, and checked back in at the dorm at 12:45. According to the DA's timeline, the rape would have started at about midnight, and lasted 30 minutes. There's no way that Seligmann could have participated. The most likely scenario, consistent with the photos, is that when the girls walked out the door at 12:04, Seligmann realized the show was over. So he got on his phone and called a cab within minutes, and left.