The Durham Police Dept has brought all this speculation upon themselves.
Questioning players without legal counsel.
Asking basic questions of players AFTER indictments
What looks to be false affidavits filed for probable cause
Omitting critical evidence in the presentation to Judge
Line up procedures
Ignoring certain parts of AV's story - like Kim stole her $$
Stating publicly that Crystal had never changed her story
4 months to turn over notes
Magically appearing hyper-detailed notes
Investigator notes that vary wildly on the same subjects
Blinco's
Handling of investigation of Blinco's incident
Cab driver treatment
History of corruption
Past preferential treatment of Gottlieb in police investigations
Addendums to witness statements that benefit the prosecution's case
Delay in interviewing Bissey
Delay in interviewing Cab Driver
Delay in interviewing Jarriel Johnson
DPD's support and endorsement of Nifong
Delay in Drug Testing
Cameras waiting for the players as the show up to provide DNA samples and get photographed.
Patrick Baker's suspicious actions and lies to the press.
In most cases, I avoid speculation that entails cover-ups or institutional corruption, but the partial list above has made that impossible in this case - for me, anyway.
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I don't disbelieve there is a conspiracy and, therefore, corruption involved in the case. I just don't think it originated with the two bimboes ("bimbos"? "bimbi"? "bimbae"? :>).
"The Durham Police Dept has brought all this speculation upon themselves."
Let's not forget holding the photo ID session for Kim on May 11--AFTER the indictments (and the guys' photos were all in the media)
Not turning over to the defense HUNDREDS Of pages from the SBI DNA testing (still not handed over)
Not turning over to the defense hordes of notes taken about the case
Not turning over to the defense the cache of internal police emails about the case
Not turning over to the defense the tox report (still not handed over as of Aug. 31)
arresting at least five witnesses in the case and getting convictions against Evans (noise violation!) and Finnerty (with a little DC cooperation); and trying to get a conviction against Elmo
etc.
Is there any local talk about Nifong's mood these days?
Add: Not turning over e-mails, not turning over drug testing reports and other new revelations.