This case it toast.
A lead investigator that makes no notes of the AV interview and her descriptions of the assailants, or any other interviews for that matter. This is absolutely insane, and horrible police work, at best. Fabrication, False Testimony, Perjury, and Obstruction of Justice at the worst.
A lead investigator who produces 33 pages of a typed report four months AFTER the incident, with NO WRITTEN NOTES to back it up.
A BALD lead investigator, who is involved in an aggressive altercation at a bar, using racial slurs, in the midst of a major investigation, hires a lawyer, and in put on Admin Leave in the middle of the investigation, and THEN produces a report plugging holes in the DA's case, which contradicts all OTHER investigators. With nothing (notes to back it up). Insanity.
A Tox result which the DA, running for election, failed to disclose, as it was not favorable to his case.
A "Line Up" using only the Lacrosse players so "someone" could be identified the third time, after two prior failures to identify anyone. Breaking numerous procedural elements of common police line-ups.
Crazy people screaming "Justice" and "Dead Man Walking" when there is no indication that they want anything other than retribution or reparation, on a group, using DUKE 3 to make their point with no facts to back anything up.
There is something really wrong in Durham and it has NOTHING to do with this case. The people cited above are beyond redemption.
This case is toast, and any of the fools involved who continue to pursue it, just continue to make themselves look completely insane, vindicative, unbalanced, criminal,and hateful for pursuing this. Never mind potential criminal charges, civil law suits, firing, debarring, defamation, and the like.
God help them all, as they are all going to need it, given their motivations.
It's not limited to Durham, it goes all the way to the Governor's Office and State Government in Raleigh.
I can't believe a case like this could be proceeding through the courts in this country. It's an outright mockery of everything the justice system is supposed to represent. Dirty cops, a corrupt, politically motivated DA, fabricated notes, unconstitutional line-ups, multiple line-ups of the same "suspects", mistatements of evidence in search warrant affidavits and a total lack of evidence or anything resembling probable cause. And yet it keeps going.
When will someone put this case out of it's misery? This can't possibly go to trial can it?