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
If she had ID'd anyone on Mar. 21, would Nifong have implored the judge to order the whole team be tested afterward? I doubt it.
What would be the consequences if there is no transcript or video of the first line-up as there was with the second?