Posted on 04/20/2006 6:54:31 AM PDT by mlc9852
The victim, a single mom who turned to exotic dancing to support her two kids, attends North Carolina Central University, a mostly black college in Durham.
She plans to keep a low profile until the students go on trial to avoid inflaming tensions in the black community, where opinion is running heavily against the privileged students.
One of the most hurtful things for the woman about the media circus surrounding the case, the cousin said, is the tendency to assume the worst about her because she is a stripper.
"She's a victim and she's a human being," the cousin said. "Her occupation couldn't justify that a crime like this was committed."
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The photos can't be unduly suggestive, and the cop running the line-up must not know if the suspect is in the array. If they're all lax players in the photo array, and it was known that everyone at the party were Duke lax players, then the cop knew the suspect was in the array - had to be. Each array is supposed to present sequential photos of similar looking guys.
Perhaps of interest to you: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:VUJJ9zOf6rwJ:www.law.duke.edu/innocencecenter/causes_and_remedies.html+north+carolina+law+photo+line-ups&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=7
Hey hey hey . . . someone posted a pic of SM TM and didn't inform me? I'm OUTRAGED!
Women still get raped.
I never said I believe her. I said the hospital said her injuries were consistent with rape. It isn't my opinion, it's what was reported.
How have all the players been dragged through the mud? They voluntarily gave DNA samples, only two have been charged, and those that weren't at the party don't have anything to worry about. Unfortunately, the coach lost his job and the season was cancelled. I only hope some good can come out of this. Maybe athletes can learn to behave like gentlemen, although I know that is a lot to ask.
I am amazed that there is any possibility of getting the stuff through Duke Stores.
Extreme irony that Duke Women's LAX Team is #1 and the apparel is unisex. Hard to stop selling logo paraphernalia for a #1 team!!! Love'n it!
I thought strippers already had a bad name.
Ha, ha. I like that name for BO. Good one.
And men get murdered in far greater amounts than women get raped. Years ago tried to get "female" attention to the plight of men, some in on very interesting charges, like "failure to pay child custody support", who were being raped in the prisons. No attention would be given. Not by MSM, not by those who claim to care most about "people".
As it now appears, the only two have been charged (in your dismissive phrase) were not even at the house at the time events occurred. They've lost an entire semester's work and tuition. One apparently wasn't even at the party and was behaving like a perfect gentleman in a cross-town restaurant. Even if they are cleared later, they will forever have the false rape charge on their records making them virtually unemployable at any level commensurate with their education and training.
What's clear to me is that you don't actually care about justice in this case. In your mind, since they looked at women "with lust in their hearts" (to borrow a phrase from Jimmy Carter), they are probably all guilty of some crime against women anyway so if they are falsely nailed for this well, ok then. You don't like them or their legal behavior so to hell with the law, any penalty they suffer can't possibly be enough.
That would immediately remove her from any aspect of this case.
Little by little the Nifong man is losing his case!
WOW - talk about putting a lot of words in someone's mouth! But if you feel better now after your little rant, then it was worth it!
I still think the players did not use common sense. For Duke being such a prestigious university, they have some not-very-bright students, looks like. Just makes me wonder what they were thinking. Oh well, boys will be boys I guess.
Doesn't mean finnerty has to talk to them.
Anyone besides me starting to feel like they fell down the rabbit hole? The neighbor is contradicting himself now.
The post is a factual recounting of behavior of other people faced by the lax team in contradiction of your point of view that the entire team had not been dragged through the mud. I note you chose to not address them.
whether you like it or not, locomotive breath accurately summed up the impression your posts have left on this thread. you can deny that is how you feel, but your posts have left that impression.
Okay - they have been dragged through the mud. Who should they blame?
So?
I don't understand the point of your post at all. Can you explain? Thanks.
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