[Hogeye13]

Here is how I think this thing ends. The DA eventually drops the prosecution of the three players. Not because of the lack of evidence or the fact that he has a lying whore for a client and another lying whore as a prime witness, but because of the "botched" investigation by the Durham PD. Then, like the snake he is, he starts investigation of the corruption in the DPD.

It appears that the DPD is up to it elbows in alligators and the head swamp drainer (Nifong) is not paying attention. When he finally decides to pull the plug they will find a seriously stopped up drain.

[Mike Nifong]

Here's another thing that is going to cause Baker & Nifong problems.

In Shelton's supplemental report, he says Kim tells him, I don't know if she's drunk or High.

This is important. Before Mark Simeon signs her up and before Mark Simeon and Willie Gary (by extension) get involved with Crystal - Roberts is saying - She may be drunk or HIGH.

She had EVERY opportunity to say then - contemporaneous - that she may have been drugged by those white guys, but she does NOT. Drugging, Slipping, Date-Rape, none of that stuff is mentioned by Roberts. Roberts did tell him that she was afraid to leave Crystal with those White men and she tells him about the racial epiteths from the White men. So, it would be logical, at that time, for her to say when describing Crystal's condition, they may have slipped her something, or I don't know if they drugged her, BUT she says
I don't know if she's DRUNK or HIGH.

Quite a difference. And her statements at that time are much more valuable than her press conferences after she's signed up with lawyers and asked for advice on how to take advantage of this "opportunity"

I think Nifong shifted when he became aware of the standing, smiling photo of the AV when she was leaving the house for good. To get around this damning photo - She was slipped a date rape drug. It's the only way to explain her behavior after this terrible gang-rape and beating.

But, now he has to deal with Roberts initial statement and Crystal's clarity during the photo lineup - and Crystal's history of becoming unresponsive after partying. Like 2002, when she stole a Car and tried to run over a cop. That cop reported her as becoming unresponsive during questioning, and the club manager and fellow strippers reported her as unresponsive before she stole the car.

[pepperhead]

Nifong was the the one that was leading this investigation and thus the one that botched it.

[David Allen]

The ONLY safe path for Nifong is to keep charging forward, and let Crystal conclude she has to bail out. There is no way she is going to sit for cross-examination in this criminal matter. She will quit the case before trial.