You can not disagree with the basic fact that LABS DONT FIND DNA ON ANY LIVE PERSON. Labs test what is sent to them. Labs might find DNA on a dead body sent to them. Live persons are not sent to Labs for testing.
We can certainly disagree on how to read Cheshire's statement. I think he was sandbagged by Nifong. You seem to think the state lab could not find and DNA on the swabs from within the woman, but Nifong someone got a message from above to send them to a private lab?
How do you figure Nifong knew there was DNA material on those swabs? The only way he could have known was from the state lab. So we are left with either the state lab could not match the material to anyone or the state lab could identify the material but could not do the type of test the private lab could.
What is sent to the lab may certainly be from a live person. In that case the lab found DNA on a live person, word games notwithstanding.
Yes, I still think the state lab found nothing at all on CGM.
Cheshire also said the SBI found nothing that would indicate CGM had sex recently.
To me, that means the SBI found no male DNA on the vaginal swabs.
Cheshire's statements are pretty strongly worded. No DNA at all, and nothing to indicate recent sexual activity.
Maybe Nifong sent it to the private lab rather than the SBI lab because he wanted to give the impression that there was something important there that needed finer testing, thus implying that there was a "there" there and the matter was not over even though the DNA on the players was negative. There were no indictments at that time, so Nifong had no real obligation to notify the defense that there was unidentified semen found in her.
Obviously, the state lab got a semen specimen from the vaginal swab and could not match it to any of the samples from the team, which apparently was a surprise to Nifong, so he hauled her in, gave her hell and got the names.