Posted on 05/11/2006 9:44:16 AM PDT by celejrm313
, N.C. — New DNA evidence may link a Duke University lacrosse player to an exotic dancer who claims she was raped in the team's house, a Durham newspaper reported Wednesday.
Citing "several well-placed sources," The Herald Sun of Durham, N.C., reported that tissue collected from under the alleged victim's fingernail might match a player who was at the team party where the attack supposedly occurred.
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Anyway, the facts will come out one way or another.
hmm that is an interesting game to play. Maybe MSNBC will play that with their news stories
You won't sick up for boys falsely accused of rape, they should never have hired a stripper...but a stripped needed sticking up for?
The facts will come out and whomever is lying deserves to be punished. I hope all involved learn a valuable lesson.
Then maybe you should be the DA? Nifong is obviously factoring Race & votes into his equation, because the facts on the table don't seem to show a very strong case. And you know these Dukies are going to have the very best defense lawyers when this goes to trial. Lawyers so good that Nifong is going to look like a bigger idiot than he already does.
I would say that one issue is the double standard on race. These guys are racist because they allegedly raped a black woman. Anytime a black is the victim of crime by a white, the white is assumed to be racist and the crime a hate crime.
Let's apply that logic to black on white crime. What would the outcry be if every time a white woman was raped by a black we called it a hate crime and say she was targeted BECAUSE she was white. Also include assaults, robberies, burglary, auto theft, drug crimes........
The cries of injustice would be heard all the way to Massachusetts. But whites are told to shut up and except the guilt of being an evil white person.
Just a thought, I could be way off. It might just be because she was done this before. So she has no credibility. If she is a victim that is sad, but each individual makes their own reputation. That is way I try to teach my kids values like honesty and respect for yourself and others. Something, it appears, her mother forgot to teach her.
Good lord I can't type today.
She HAS done this before
and
That is WHY, not way.
oops
so what problem do you have with strippers, come on, now strippers have feelings too.......
Very good analysis and does make sense. I understand your point.
The only folks you will find it easy to attack for being criminals are folks without friends or family members who post here.
I wouldn't put it past some of the "witnesses" to have found reason to post on FR.
How strange ~ watching FOX (I don't watch CNN, EVER!) I got the distinct impression that Murdoch's people were taking the side of the team against this otherwise unknown poor woman with two young children.
Makes sense....:)
I'd suggest your reliance on what are, at best "factoids" of no significance, does not advance the position of the players.
Remember, there's a commonly used date rate drug out there that makes the victim believe she (or he) was raped even if no rape took place.
That was my impression also when the story first broke. Of course, lately I have skipped any coverage of the story.
THe idea that FOX would ever support a black stripper against a bunch of white athletes (a vanishing species, eh) is simply not believable.
should supply your need for research on the matter. Focus on GHB as a possibility in this case since so many witnesses have stated (albeit not under oath) that the AV behaved in a manner consistent with this particular drug's use.
Didn't mean to.
Anyway, thanks for the notes. I'll watch for them during the next NCAA basketball tournament. No doubt somebody will show up.
Now, concerning your question about whether or not someone can be prosecuted for rape even though he victim only believes a rape happened ~ in a situation where you've administered a lifethreatening poison to someone without her knowledge, I'd think a prosecution for rape would get you out of prison sooner!
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