Posted on 05/25/2006 5:04:51 AM PDT by abb
DURHAM -- A lawyer with the state NAACP said the civil rights organization intends to seek a gag order in the Duke lacrosse case, and a journalist who participated in a forum with him on Wednesday said media coverage of the alleged rape may deprive the alleged victim of her legal rights to a fair trial.
Al McSurely, an attorney who chairs the Legal Redress Committee for the state National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said he generally respects the defense attorneys in the case as colleagues. But they are violating the State Bar's rules of professional conduct that discourage comments outside court that are likely to prejudice a case, he said.
The NAACP will try to intervene in the case to file a "quiet zone/let's let justice work" motion. That is otherwise known as a gag order, he acknowledged, although he said he doesn't like that term.
McSurely's comments came amid the first-ever Durham Conference on the Moral Challenges of our Culture at First Presbyterian Church downtown. The session gave the approximately 150 people who attended a chance to hear a series of talks and discuss among themselves sexual and domestic violence, racism, class distinctions and the media.
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If Cheshire said there was no evidence of her having had sex at all then either Joe Cheshire misinterpreted the results he was given by mistaking no match to the guys as meaning no semen at all in her, or he was spinning the results he was given, or he simply misspoke from a mindset of thinking in terms of the lax guys' jeopardy only.
Holy cow!
What the heck is going on?
Anyone who clears up all the contradictions in this case would put the Warren Commission to shame..
Yeah, but as I said that gives me nothing to go on. :-)
Shoot, now we find out about this other lineup.....
Now I've got something to think about!
No, it really doesn't look bad because the defense was only entitled to know if there was a match to their clients or not AT THAT TIME. A prosecutor isn't required to disclose the entirety of the results to the attorney for a SUSPECT because to do so would endanger the investigation. After the indictments, he had the time frame to produce discovery running that allowed him to maintain secrecy of those results until he produced all the discovery when time ran out and he had to produce the discovery and under the argument that, by then, testing was still ongoing because he sent all the stuff onto another lab.
Nifong of course knew Mangum had lied about if and whom she'd had consensual with just prior to the alleged incident when he went to the GJ for his indictments.
My guess is that she fessed up about this at about the same time that she made the three identifications.
Not only all that, but it was also about a week prior to the first lab tests were formally remitted to Nifong that Nifong was making noises about condoms. As soon as he said that I said he had the results back and they were negative as to the players.
But what's significant is that when Nifong was seeking his indictments, he knew Mangum had lied about whom all she had sex with, which is actually a more important fact than the fact of Mangum lying to the SANE nurse about whom all she had sex with just prior to the alleged incident.
WHAT OTHER LINE-UP????
See post 498.
It's a shocking story published today.
Well certainly you can understand why in the second lineup people who were not in Durham the night of the party seemed familiar to her.
It's not that important what Cheshire knew and when. What's important is what Nifong knew and when. Anyway, I think Cheshire extrapolated more from the results he was given than were actually there if what he said was intended to mean that it was resolved that Mangum had no semen from consensual sex just prior to the alleged incident. It isn't a mistake or misspeak that's particularly helpful to the lax guys, so I tend to think he misinterpreted something on the report, which was most likely a partial report.
The evidence that there were three donors doesn't necessarily have to be clinical evidence. The evidence that there were three potential donors may be the statement Mangum gave setting forth the names of the three she had sex with after she got caught in the lie.
Oh, geez. The first line-up makes the second one even more suggestive. This is absolutely outrageous.
I wasn't aware that the cops took fingerprints. Did they?
And it also explains the dorm raids trying to talk to thelax guys to find out who was at the party.
This is actually comical, classic N&O:
"The March 21 photo lineup could violate the Durham Police Department's policy on photographic lineups:
-- The policy calls for "filler" photographs of people who are not suspects in the case. The March 21 lineup apparently included only Duke lacrosse players;
-- The officer running the lineup should document the procedures, results, number of photos viewed. Evans' lawyers said they received no report.
District Attorney Mike Nifong could not be immediately reached this afternoon."
BOTH line-ups were only lax players and neither included fillers!!!!!!!!
Thanks.
WHOA!
Did both line-ups show only the players?
Just when we think we have seen it all.
Not really, I am sure this will be repeated again & again.
Nifong is a jerk, there is no love lost, he deserves to be in jail.....Do not get me wrong, BUT
What are the chances the DPD (some of the DPD) are the real villans and Nifong was their idiot savant, dupe, accomplice, whatever?
What are the chances the DPD got this rolling along and Nifong ran with it?
Hell, what are the chances they are all in it together?
I haven't really seen anything that leads me to believe the cops are in on some conspiracy to railroad these guys. If anything, it seems more likely they are trying to cover up a sloppy investigation in a case they expected to go nowhere but has instead mushroomed like a thermo-nuclear bomb.
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