[Perdogg]

ping!

[SouthernFreebird]

What is he thinking, she's black, you can't talk about her criminal life.

[SkyPilot]

Additionally, J. Kirk Osborn, who represents 20-year-old Reade Seligmann, surmises that there is a "good chance" that the accuser "may have been committed, at least once, to a hospital or drug treatment program." As such, Osborn wants material documenting the woman's supposed "drug abuse history," according to a discovery motion filed this afternoon in Durham's Superior Court. The motion, a copy of which you'll find below, also seeks the 27-year-old dancer's criminal history, probation, and education records. The material sought, Osborn argues, provides "rich sources of information for impeaching the complaining witness."

Here is this case in a nutshell:

1. Some college boys drinking one night call an escort service for some strippers to perform.

2. Two strippers show up, and one of them is drunk out of her mind, and the other one is full of anger and attitude. They perform for 4 minutes.

3. The college boys are ticked off, and demand their money back.

4. Racial slurs are thrown on both sides, a heated argument ensues.

5. The strippers leave, and the semi-sober stripper attempts to dump the passed out stripper at a Kroeger supermarket parking lot. Meanwhile, the second stripper makes a phoney 911 call saying she and her "girlfriend" were just walking buy a house and were called "_iggers."

6. The drunk stripper wakes up and yells rape, while the second stripper (who may or may have not taken her share of the $800 while she was passed out) e-mails a PR firm and asks for help on how she can profit from this.

[Drango]

Now they are playing hardball rather than lacrosse.

[Alia]

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[Krodg]

Please don't feed thread trolls!!!!

[TexKat]

Duke Player's Lawyer Digs For Dirt - CBS News

"This request is based on the fact that the complaining witness has a history of criminal activity and behavior, which includes alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and dishonesty."

Kirk Osborn, lawyer for Reade Seligmann

[Tall_Texan]

This isn't *really* about the victim's competancy to go to trial. We've had people go to prison for raping women who were barely vegetables in mental hospitals.

What's happening here is an effort to poison the jury pool with whatever dirt they can find. From a legal standpoint, it's a good but risky defense manuever. He could risk some backlash for "blaming the victim". But he's hoping to find something he can announce before the trial to cast more doubt on the accuser's story.

Since the case seems to lack DNA evidence, the victim's credibility is going to be a major component of this case and the defense is going to go all out to shred her credibility.