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DURHAM -- A date-rape drug test reportedly involving a hair sample of the alleged Duke lacrosse victim has turned up negative, one of the defense attorneys said Wednesday.

According to Kirk Osborn, he and fellow defense lawyers learned the result from Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong at a meeting last week with Judge Osmond Smith about the case, in which three lacrosse players are under indictment on charges of sexually assaulting an exotic dancer at an off-campus party in March.

Attempts to obtain comment from Nifong's office were unsuccessful Wednesday.

Osborn told The Herald-Sun he wasn't surprised at the outcome of the test.

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"We knew that was going to happen," he said. "It certainly eliminates whatever Mr. Nifong HINTED to Newsweek magazine [in April] that they slipped her a date-rape drug."

http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-765602.html

The Herald Sun says the test was from a hair sample, but then they quote an expert who talks about drugs washing out of the body quickly. I am not any sort of expert on the subject, but he MUST be talking about a urine test. I thought hair remained positive for months.

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Begin excerpt - A date-rape drug test reportedly involving a hair sample of the alleged Duke lacrosse victim has turned up negative, one of the defense attorneys said Wednesday.

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Forensic consultant Shannon Miller, also a physician and associate professor of psychiatry at Wright State University in Ohio, said conducting date-rape drug testing is standard procedure.

Negative results, he said, don't necessarily mean no substances were used. That's because some drugs can wash out of the body quickly, he said, also citing the importance of the timing of the test.