There was another line-up we weren't told about:
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/443889.html
And apparently there was no transcript or recording provided to the defense.
This just gets more and more incredible. Thanks for posting the article.
Holy cow!
What the heck is going on?
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.
Oh, geez. The first line-up makes the second one even more suggestive. This is absolutely outrageous.
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!!!!!!!!
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?
Great article GAgal! I thought one of two things.
Either she had continually - purposefully put off the ID for 3 weeks stalling for a small time lawyer or her boyfriend to get through an asset check OR
Nifong and investigators (and I use that term loosely) weren't happy with her previous efforts (with a lineup)
Nifong, Baker and their corrupt co-horts have crossed the line here. Imagine the procedures followed for that lineup : and this stuff was ALL supposed to be in discovery - meaning the peripheral information the defense is asking for.
Either Nifong goes after more people on the edge of the case like the Cabbie and gets deeper - he's desperate to find someone willing to testify to the rape (without regard to the acurrateness of the testimony), a weak link willing to cave. Either Nifong goes in that direction and becomes even more aggressive and outlandish OR he's taken off the case by the N.C. Governor or the Feds.
Most of the people here are good people, and they keep waiting for Nifong to throw in the towel or the AV to come clean - It's not going to happen. Nifong will not concede that he railroaded the players or that he doesn't have the goods, the AV isn't in a hurry to going back and turning tricks. The AV has opportunities like never before at this point.
This is a textbook case is abuse of power.
Thank you for the article
That article deserves it's own thread. Someone also needs to email it to Dan Abrams and Greta.
UNBELIEVABLE!!!
BUMP!
From your link:
For the March 21 lineup, Durham police used official photos of the lacrosse players, identical to those posted on GoDuke.com, the official Web site of Duke athletics. The police arranged the photos in groups labeled A through F.
Evans' photo was labeled F-5. There was a Post-It note referring to group F that said "Did not pick any".
"Eight days after the alleged assault, and two weeks before the April 4 identification procedures in which she selected (Evans) with 90 percent certainty if he had a mustache, the complainant viewed a picture of (Evans) in this case and did not identify him as one of her alleged assailants," wrote Evans' lawyers, Joseph B. Cheshire V and Brad Bannon of Raleigh. "Incredibly, though, there is no narrative report ... about these photo identification procedures."
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.