Posted on 05/15/2006 7:14:12 AM PDT by pissant
DURHAM - A Durham grand jury is scheduled to meet today, and the session could mean new charges in the investigation of a reported rape at a Duke lacrosse team party.
Two of the team's players were indicted in April on charges of first degree rape, first degree sex offense and first degree kidnapping. They are accused of assaulting an escort service dancer in a bathroom of a house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. Their lawyers say the men are innocent, and lawyers representing dozens of team members say that no sex or assault occurred at the March 13 party.
But the woman says she was attacked by three men, and Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong said he has been working on bringing charges against a third person.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TODAY? If Nifong decides to submit the case, police investigators and possibly other witnesses will try to convince grand jurors in a secret session that the state has probable cause to bring a case forward. Grand jurors will hear only the prosecution's side of the case. The standard required for a true bill of indictment is far lower than the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard required for a conviction.
IF INDICTMENTS ARE ISSUED, WHEN WILL THEY BECOME PUBLIC? On April 17, a judge ordered the indictments in the lacrosse case sealed. The names of the players who were indicted were not released until 5 a.m. the next day when the players surrendered at the Durham County jail. If Nifong again requests that the indictments be sealed, the law allows a judge to keep them secret until the person is arrested or appears in court.
WHEN WILL ALL THE EVIDENCE BE REVEALED? State law requires prosecutors to turn over all of their case files to defense lawyers, but nothing requires the evidence to be turned over to the public. In open court hearings, lawyers often discuss some of the evidence, but the state's case may not be revealed until trial. No trial dates have been set. When a report on the DNA testing is complete, Nifong is required by law to turn it over to all 46 members of the lacrosse team who submitted DNA samples.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? The cases against Reade William Seligmann, 20, of Essex Fells, N.J., and Collin Finnerty, 19, of Garden City, N.Y., are moving forward. Finnerty has a court date in June. Seligmann is scheduled to appear in court Thursday. His attorney, Kirk Osborn, has filed a series of motions challenging Nifong's handling of the case and asking a judge to bar the prosecutor from further involvement.
My point is that some of these players foolishly used racial names from the "music" of their youth. The music they were told it was hip to listen too.
Nifong is an offended liberal pushing this somewhat because of the language used. He has said as much.
How about "One of the players has turned."
My head explodes when I hear that one.
" And if there was DNA on the fingernails, why wasn't there any on her OTHER nails? "
From our experiment-once the press on nail came off-blobs of rubber cement type glue remained on the natural nail.
Which should have been magnets for all kinds of forensic evidence.
Unless the nails had not yet been applied.
Interesting. Hadn't thought of that.
Of course, I can only imagine what they said if what has been rumored on the internet from the start is true: that Kim called the "limp dick white boys."
Right. If you don't have any facts to make genuine news, just make it up. GAG!
Press conference starting!
Kim called the "limp dick white boys."
...and how would Kim know this?....this is getting surreal...
Here we go!
Nappy....ROFLMAO
Here we go..
FINALLY!!!
lol. Nifong is a pantywaist.
Cheshire: Thank you all for ocming here this afternoon. As you know, the GJ in Durham county indicted David Evans today for the same crimes that Colin and Reed were indicted for. David is here to voluntarily turn himself in. He will be bonded out today and we will go through the process in an orderly fashion.
David wants to make a statement. After he finishes, he will take no questions and I hope you respect that. When he gets through making his tatement, I will make one and I will take questions. Also with David in support of him are all theh seniors of the Duke lacrosse team.
I meant to address this of yours. It's the double standard. And its wrong.
And Nifong merely illustrates how ugly things can be and get when faulty characters are put into positions of authority and power over any one of us.
Cheshire: Here to turn himself in and will be bonded out.
David is going to make a statement.
No questions after.
When he is done, Cheshire will speak AND take questions.
All of the seniors on the Duke Lacrosse team are there!!!
Is that his mother?
David Stanley is also there? Who is that? Is he the fourth player?
The mother and father are there.
"They are victims and they are suffering and I would appreciate your respect."
Evans says he is RELIEVED to be able to come out and speak.
Lies, fabricated and proven wrong.
This kid is innocent....
Don't confuse Nifong with facts-can't you see that his mind (or what passes for a mind in skulls of moron's) is already made up.
Has anyone else noticed what spell check offers in lieu of Nifong? That says it all.
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