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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.
I just don't know Ken. It's out of my league.
How long do you think it'll be before one of the talking heads says we have to give Nifong the benefit of the doubt. He may have evidence he's holding back - and something convinced that Grand Jury... ?
We should remember that someone from the DA's office or DPD (IIRC, a investigator on the case) told the Durham Herald Sun and activist Victoria Petersen that the Hair involved was a caucasian pubic hair found on the woman's body at Duke during her SANE exam.
It was strange because the Herald-Sun mentioned it once briefly and never again - and no other outlet reported it.
Joe Cheshire was asked about this hair at the DNA press conference and he told them he didn't know what they were talking about. He looked at the other attorneys and said did you read anything about a hair and they shook their heads no. Cheshire said I didn't see anything about a hair.
So, if that hair analysis was really the AV's hair and the DA or Police lied to the Media about non-existent evidence - once again, Durham, we have a problem!
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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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Negative results, he [Dr. Shannon Miller] 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.
I call BS on the H-S. The New York Times tried the same thing with DNA evidence. Here is what KC Johnson had to say about the NYT experts:
NYT: Outside experts say it is possible for a rapist to leave no DNA evidence.
KCJ: Who are the "outside experts" who contend it is possible for three men that the accuser said didn't use condoms and who violently raped her "to leave no DNA evidence"? Wilson and Glater don't tell us: I guess we're just supposed to trust their word.
Her hair had so much drug information in it that it would have been impossible to trace to a specific date.