Posted on 10/15/2006 5:52:10 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
(CBS) The three Duke lacrosse players indicted for a rape they say they didn't commit are indignant over the effect the charges are having on their lives and their families.
In their first interviews, they speak to Ed Bradley this Sunday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
I have it on TIVO at home. If I have time (and remember - old and forgetful) tonight I'll check.
I went over there to check it out and found this post...
"There is an ad on local radio proclaiming: NIFONG - TOUGH ON FAKE CRIME."
Reade/Adam was ID'd 100% too....
I am in awe of the talent on FR.
There is some minor truth to that, but strictly at the investigative stage. If a suspect comes forward and wants to talk to a DA at anytime, any DA or DDA would be an idiot not to take advantage of that, but conversations between a prosecutor are much more likely to occur during the plea stage, after charges have been filed or are about to be filed, and usually with counsel if it's a felony. If it's a crime involving people up the ladder who haven't been caught yet, suspects may offer to give somebody up before they're even charged in order to hide the fact that they were the person who ratted out the big guy. They have to cut that deal with the DDA handling the case. But in the usual Beavis and Butthead type crimes, the prosecutor doesn't have much contact with a defendant until post time unless, again, the suspect seeks out the prosecutor, which is what happened in the Duke case. It's a ridiculous lie for Liefong's little administrative assistant that he sent out to talk for him to blanketly assert that defendants never talk to prosecutors.
The cops are an altogether different matter though, as has been previously explained on here. It's bizarre that these boys were not interviewed after the identifications were made, unless we understand that Liefong simply wanted to press ahead with the case and had good reason to know that no crime had been committed. Avoiding review of exculpatory evidence was the only way he could go forward with the case.
More like a primer.
Good points. So the main issue is that LE did not avail themselves of the opportunity to clarify timelines, alibis, etc. Such behavior can only make sense if you have an ironclad case - with video footage, a confession, DNA and impeccable witnesses. Nifong's case is more like a collander!! It is like Custer at the Little Big Horn: Who cares where the Indians are and how many of them are out there!! (Oops, too many metaphors)
Ed Bradley's next piece I hope is going to expose the reasons why Nifong and DPD took this most unusual stance. Another 5 minutes of Prof. Coleman and a summary of the AVs recent activities (with video) should do the trick.
O/T and tongue-in-cheek (somewhat, but with a grain of truth): It's all Bush's fault. :>
Seriously, if he had cleaned the rats out of the Justice Dept. when he took office, there's a good chance that there would be a civil rights case underway in the Duke lax matter as we speak with regard to Liefong, the cops, and probably even Brodhead. When the Clintons took office, they fired most of the U.S. attorneys office and put their own far-left radical lawyers in. They sure do come in handy at times like this. Bush left them in, and neither Ashcroft nor Gonzales have made any moves to flush them.
Then where are her notes? The defense needs to add this to their list. Any statements Mangum has made as to her whereabouts, means of support, how she's feeling, what medical treatment she has received, who she has discussed the case with, any details she has remembered and added to her story, may all have been transmitted to this subordinate of Liefong's.
I saw the pages he's talking about on the videos NeonKnight posted for us (for which I am eternally grateful). Anyway, with DVR or TiVo to freeze the screen, a large enough screen, some bright light and good eyesight, one could probably read the rest of those pages shown in fuzzy or shaded background on the 60M show. I remember thinking at the time that I was doubly mad that I didn't get the show recorded because I would like to have taken a look at that myself.
That's the way I saw it, too.
Race and ethics shall never break bread together.
Didn't Nifong take over the investigation, though?
That would mean he would be the one talking to the defendants as lead investigator, wouldn't it? Questioning witnesses, etc.?
He put himself in the position, as I recall.
I'm holding out hope for a High Definition version....
How can H-S sink any lower? Once you hit the bottom, there is no way to go but up. And I think H-S has been at the bottom for a long time.
http://www.blacknews.com/pr/racerape101.html
The Danger of Screaming Race In Rape
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, BlackNews.com Columnist
Correct. First, understand that Liefong took over the case before the normal investigation WHICH IS DONE BY POLICE INVESTIGATORS got off the ground. Second, understand that Liefong ran the identifications by directive that was diametrically opposed to established procedure as well as USSC case law. Then understand that after Liefong got the identifications he wanted (any three would do), he refused to hear from the defense lawyers and did not allow the police investigators to conduct the normal interrogations of identified suspects.
Liefong grabbed control of this case to AVOID the normal investigative procedures which would have resulted in no corpus (no crime occurred). In my opinion, he did that to advance this case for his own political fortunes knowing that the black population and far-left whites would sieze on it in their shared hatred of white Duke boys in general and take him over the top in the election in their zeal to "get whitey." The perfect storm of self-interest and no ethics from both Liefong, blacks and far-left whites touched down in Durham, a racially divided town-and-gown city within a state devoid of a system of the checks and balances we expect in the criminal justice system. Their indicting grand jury required for all felonies and not followed by any probable cause proceeding was made to order for the abuses inflicted by the Mike Liefong Nazis of this world.
Yes, see my fuller reply to bjc, #1278 above.
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