Posted on 06/19/2006 10:17:42 AM PDT by abb
Nifong press release and email...
(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...
Just possibly the AV had violated her parole, or perhaps she was concerned about false ID, false/conflicting statements/charges, etc. Whatever the case, the need for her to contact her defense attorney does raise a red flag.
Did she can Woody before Je$$e's visit? ... must have.
It's entirely possible that she was worried about prostitution charges. Who knows what was said as the "ladies of the evening" left that house at 610 Buchanan? Maybe the guys told them they were just a couple of skanky hookers, and they figured they would come with a story to pre-empt them. Just a thought.
Clearly Mangum and Pittman [aka Roberts] had good reason to contact an attorney after that night. Roberts was in fact arrested. In addition each may have thought they had a civil cause of action, but my guess is that both were more worried about criminal liability.
If I was a betting woman, which I'm not, I'd wager it was the lineup, make that six lineups. Was she feeling pressure to ID the "perps?"
Just another thought. :)
True...I was laughing out loud last night when Dan Abrams was quoting Mangum calling the three guys by the WRONG NAMES! Every single one was an incorrect name.
Anybody ever find out what time of day the hearing's scheduled for?
The lax team members as well as the two "professional women" were all using false names that evening. The women were "Precious" (Crystal) and "Nikki" (Kim). I forget which lax team members were the three names being used.
I guess that's why I thought it was funny. No one was using their real name, but she was 100% of their IDs...Sort of.
It was a flaw in the show that they didn't make it more clear what was going on with the names.
Why did the police have the accusers computer?
They took alot of the players computers too. Maybe the police wanted to throw a LAN party. ;)
Why would the police take the computer of a "rape victim"?
You already answered your own question: "Lose All Numbers". There is no doubt in my mind that there are emails, instant messages, and other files in the computer that the PD wants to scrub of all the city government and law enforcement names.
"...There is no case. No evidence."
How is it that a district attorney can ruin someone's life - drive them to finacial ruin, slander them and cause them untold anguish and pain... for POLITICAL REASONS? "
Apparently in North Carolina- Nifong is Emperor.
He could appear in court dressed in drag, wearing a red clown nose and fright wig,
speaking Klingon and no one in the North Carolina legal community could or would do anything about it.
Who knows, nothing the cops or the DA has done in this case makes any sense.
If not, certainly the SBI people do.
(06/21/06 -- DURHAM) - The father of a Duke University men's lacrosse player charged with rape said the case "has taken an unbelievable and horrendous emotional toll" on his family, which borrowed $400,000 from a close friend to post their son's bond.
In an affidavit filed Wednesday, Philip Seligmann said his son, Reade, "has never been involved in the criminal justice system in any state before the filing of these charges."
"We are committed as a family, along with Reade, to do everything necessary to restore our good name," Seligmann said in the affidavit, which was filed along with a motion by defense attorneys seeking discovery evidence from District Attorney Mike Nifong.
The filings come a day before attorneys for Seligmann -- as well as co-defendants Collin Finnerty and David Evans -- are scheduled to appear in court for a procedural hearing in the case. The players have received permission to miss the court appearance.
In April, a grand jury indicted Seligmann of Essex Fells, N.J., and Finnerty of Garden City, N.Y., on charges of rape, kidnapping and sexual offense. Evans, a team co-captain from Bethesda, Md., was indicted on the same charges in May.
All three men are free on $400,000 bond. A trial isn't expected to begin before spring 2007 in the case, which began when a woman hired to perform as an exotic dancer at a March 13 team party told police she was raped by three men there.
At Thursday's hearing, Seligmann's attorneys will seek a bond reduction. In his affidavit, Philip Seligmann said the $400,000 was too much for him to post himself. He instead turned to an unnamed friend, who volunteered the money.
"I was prepared to do everything possible to prevent my son from spending time in jail for a crime he did not commit," he said.
In their discovery motion, Seligmann's attorneys specifically asked for access to the accuser's computer -- which they said is believed to be in the possession of the Durham Police Department -- and records from the Durham Access Center, where the accuser was taken for involuntary commitment in the hours after the party and before she told police she was raped.
Defense attorneys have suggested that District Attorney Mike Nifong has not given them all the evidence he might have, as required. Last month, Nifong provided nearly 1,300 pages of discovery, saying that was all he had to turn over.
Kirk Osborn, a lawyer representing Seligmann, said the defense is seeking Nifong's "complete file, basically, and the law enforcement officers' complete file."
The Thursday hearing will be the "first setting" for Finnerty and Evans, a hearing at which a judge makes sure a defendant has an attorney and handles other procedural issues. Seligmann's hearing is the "second setting," which is the deadline for filing pretrial motions not dealing with the suppression of evidence.
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