How do you interpret my post as Duke hate?
As I said in my post, this could not have happened at a worse time. It has bound to have an adverse effect on all the efforts of the admissions office and the athletic department.
Duke hate? Hardly. It's hurting Duke.
Just like Nifong won tonight after his outrageous and unethical behavior - He will win this case against the LAX players if it's heard in Durham. I've been saying this all along. They will ignore the evidence and convict within an hour (wasn't O.J. like that?)
After Nifong won, Great had him on. Although, I didn't see the entire interview of him on Greta (Fox) tonight, I couldn't believe the jovial atmosphere on the show after he was reelected.
The 3 obvious Questions for Greta to ask Nifong (and you better believe had these been black players, she'd have asked):
1: Why did you send investigators to interview these, in some cases, 18 year old boys, when you knew they had legal representation? Wasn't that an end run that skirted the law?
2: Why did your office violate its own rules in the photo lineup? One of the investigators has said he was directed by you to do this. I find that strange, don't you think your case would be stronger if the AV had picked them out of a conventional photo lineup with fillers?
3: Why weren't you willing to look at the Defense's evidence when they asked to meet with you and had informed you that there's evidence that their client COULD NOT HAVE committed the crime? I don't know of any other case where a DA has declined to see evidence from the other side. Why didn't you want to see their 'exculpatory' evidence?
A DAs job is to seek the truth, correct?
I didn't see all of the Greta's interview, but the part I did see did not reflect the totally unfair and potentially illegal way Nifong has handled this entire case!
It's not hurting Duke if the parents have any intelligence. Unless your child has been accepted by Harvard or Princeton (and they like the cold: mine didn't, those summers with Nana in Florida probably had something to do with my students choice) - I cannot imagine discounting Duke. I suppose I trust that people with intelligence do not live by the media spin - either right or left spin - but look at the reality. In reality, most college students have little or no connection (unless in a community service way) with the communities in which they live.