"Why shouldn't I profit from it?"
Posted on 10/11/2006 1:52:56 AM PDT by abb
DURHAM -- A CBS "60 Minutes" segment on the controversial Duke University lacrosse rape case is expected to air Sunday evening and will include interviews with all three indicted players and Kim Roberts Pittman, the second dancer at the party where the attack allegedly occurred.
CBS would not comment on the show. The network's normal practice is to withhold information about "60 Minutes" broadcasts until a few days in advance.
But Pittman's lawyer, Mark Simeon of Durham, confirmed Tuesday that his client was interviewed. But Simeon ended a telephone conversation before fielding a question about what Pittman told the interviewer.
An exotic dancer at the time, Pittman was with another dancer who claimed she was raped and sodomized by three lacrosse players during an off-campus party at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. in mid-March.
Pittman since has been quoted as saying the rape charges were "a crock." She also told police in a March 22 handwritten statement that she and the accuser ended their performance when someone at the lacrosse party "brought out a broomstick and ... said he would use the broomstick on us."
"That statement made me uncomfortable and I felt like I wanted to leave," Pittman added. "I raised my voice to the boys and said the show was over."
Pittman said she then asked the alleged rape victim to leave the party with her. But she said the accuser "felt we could get more money and that we shouldn't leave yet."
According to Pittman, the accuser "began showing signs of intoxication" early in the dance performance and was "basically out of it" by the time it ended.
Pittman finally drove the other dancer to a Hillsborough Road grocery store, from which a 911 call was placed to police.
There is nothing about an alleged rape in Pittman's written statement, which is included in public-record court files.
All three defendants also were interviewed for the "60 Minutes" segment, sources told The Herald-Sun. The interviewer is veteran reporter Ed Bradley.
The three -- Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann and David Evans -- remain free under $100,000 bonds as they await a trial that is expected to occur next year. Each maintains he is innocent.
Neither they nor their families could be reached Tuesday for possible comment about the CBS show, and their attorneys had no comment.
Defense lawyers apparently will not appear on the television program. Neither will District Attorney Mike Nifong, who has been widely criticized for allegedly rushing to judgment in the case and making inflammatory public statements before he had sufficient evidence.
For the past four months, Nifong has not discussed the situation publicly. He was out of town on business and unreachable for comment Tuesday.
Benjamin Himan and Mark Gottlieb, police investigators in the lacrosse case, also could not be reached. But sources said the two had not been interviewed by "60 Minutes" as of Friday.
The Police Department repeatedly has declined to discuss the lacrosse incident.
It could not be determined Tuesday if a one-time driver for the alleged rape victim, Jarriel Lanier Johnson, was among those Bradley contacted.
"I have nothing to say about it," Johnson told The Herald-Sun by telephone before hanging up.
But Johnson gave police an April 6 handwritten statement about an "appointment," "a job" and a performance the accuser had at three different hotels in two days not long before the alleged rape.
Johnson also said she had sexual intercourse with him during the same time period.
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Yeah, after the beating he's taken, he's probably become gun-shy about going in front of the press with another barrel of lies.
I wonder if Whore #2 got paid for her 60M interview?
betting on the come, I suspect...
Hmmmm.....I also wonder if she's been sentenced on her violation of probation yet and, if so, did that occur before or after her 60M interview?
LOL!
The guys look so collegiate. Kim looks so...uncollegiate, if that's a word. I spot a makeover. I wonder what story she's come up with for this interview.
It's still a risk, though. Look for the prosecution to subpeona to get all film of the interview, including what doesn't air. They'll look for anything that looks like a smirk, a guilty look, or any facial expression they can freeze-frame for the jury.
Not that I would dare suggest anyone using it, but 60 Minutes' website has a comments section...
I would love to hear Collin say on national TV that he left before the dance even started and that he can prove it.....
"Why shouldn't I profit from it?"
LOL!
And what a tacky looking skank she is. That dress or top she's wearing in that photo - blech! And all those rings, bracelets and crap - what a loser!
Ed Bradley holds up Collin's receipt from the Cosmic Cantina....
Here's the Trinity Park website...
http://trinitypark.org/
The person who presides over the neighborhood association meetings is Alice Bumgarner. Other people are: Jen Minelli, Lee Ann Tilley, Lee Coggins, John Dagenhart, John Kirk, Lance Kimbrough, Emily Herbert, Pattie LeSueur, Dale Gaddis, and Stacy Murphy, Bonny Moellenbrock and Damian Makarushka, Diane Pahl, John Hodges-Copple, Pela Gereffi, Stefanie Kandzia, Al and Erika Stone, Patricia Bauer and Steve Snow, John Swansey, Eddie Zuniga, Alison Carpenter, and Eric Bishop.
It's always dangerous to judge ethnicity by names but that doesn't sound like a very diverse group. Walking past the neighborhood as I have done a time or two would tend to confirm that observation.
http://trinitypark.org/wp/index.php
Here's what Alice Bumgarner wrote in Salon shortly after the incident.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/04/04/duke_lacrosse/index.html
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JOHNSON,JARRIEL,LANIER 94CR 028974 other other 99/99/2099 Some County 99999
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JOHNSON,JARRIEL,LANIER 98CR 102118 other other 99/99/2099 Some County 99999
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JOHNSON,JARRIEL,LANIER 05CR 710423 other other 99/99/2099 Some County 99999
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I wonder why all that shows up at 123nc, but nothing shows up at the NC DOC website?
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/497356.html
Defense files motion in lacrosse case
By Benjamin Niolet, Staff Writer
DURHAM — Lawyers for an indicted Duke University lacrosse player want to know what, if anything, the accuser told District Attorney Mike Nifong about her allegations of rape.
Lawyers for Dave Evans sent a letter to Nifong today saying that they are entitled to a report of anything the woman told Nifong about the facts of a March party where the woman said she was raped by Duke lacrosse players. In a recent court hearing, Nifong agreed that under state law, he would have to hand over a written report recounting anything the woman said about the incident. But Nifong told the lawyers in a hearing last month before Superior Court Judge W. Osmond Smith III, that he had no statements to hand over.
More than 2,000 pages of evidence turned over to the defense contain no record of the woman telling Nifong the facts of the case. But in a letter delivered today and filed in court, lawyers Joseph B. Cheshire V and Bradley Bannon say they believe that she has talked to Nifong.
In a motion Nifong filed Sept. 20, Nifong wrote that the woman told him that she had not taken the drug Ecstacy on the night of the party.
“The necessary implication is that, as of the date of our hearing before Judge Smith, you had spoken with [the accuser] about the facts of the case,” Cheshire and Bannon wrote in the letter.
The News & Observer generally does not identify complaining witnesses in sexual assault cases.
The lawyers also cite a story from the Durham Herald-Sun this week in which the chairman of a political action committee said that during a campaign endorsement interview Nifong said that he was the “only one that’s interviewed this victim.”
In an interview with the News & Observer, David Smith, the chairman of the Friends of Durham, said Nifong did not say much about the case when he sat for an interview with members of the group.
“What he said was he is the only person who has talked to the victim,” Smith said.
Nifong was out of the office at a conference and could not be reached today.
The account of that night by the woman will likely be Nifong’s most important piece of evidence at trial. Written reports contain several conflicting accounts that the woman told police about that night. Lawyers representing the three players say her story is false and that no rape or assault occurred.
Staff writer Benjamin Niolet can be reached at (919)956-2404 or bniolet@newsobserver.com.
I met with her and didn't speak about the case.
I never spoke to her about the case.
I'm the only one that has interviewed her about the case.
That's a good catch by Cheshire. If Nifong asked Precious whether she took ecstasy that night then he was discussing the facts of the case with her. Oops. Nifong's lies are catching up with him.
I like the part about Nifong being out of the office at a conference and unavailable for comment. He may have to go underground permanantly before this is over.
http://www.wral.com/slideshow/dukelacrosse/9897504/detail.html?qs=;s=2;w=800
Yep, he asked her in late April if she took ectstasy that night.
That would be a conversation about the case.
You see, people. This is what lying gets for you. You forget which lie to you told to whom. Now the Fong is trapped. He's lied to the Judge...
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