Posted on 10/18/2006 2:45:47 PM PDT by zaxxon
Thanks for that.
So Nifong could win if it's
34% Nifong
33% Cheek
33% Monks
or more likely
49% Nifong
48% Cheek
3% Monks
Monks really needs to drop out. What a jerk.
Here's his home page.
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Chemistry/faculty/steven.baldwin
Compare his research interests with the mush on the "Group of 88's" home pages.
http://www.wral.com/news/10054511/detail.html?qs=;s=1;w=800
I missed this document. Posting it just in case someone else missed it also.
Thanks for posting.
I am not an organic chemist, but it sounds like Baldwin is investigating some basic science around the creation of pharmaceuticals. Even if this were not the case, I suspect Prof. Baldwin will add more to benefit the human race than all 88 of the remaining professors combined.
I saw this, but I have not seen anything that follows from this. The letter suggests that something more specific will follow based on the full transcript.
You wonder why all the police notes and emails haven't been turned more... More exculpatory evidence I's guess.
I am not sure about Michaels pretending to follow the case, but under American law you have the right to know what you are accused of. So in fact Michaels and Joyner are spinning claiming that Nifong can be hiding something that is relevant still.
Nifong will not be allowed to say "maybe a foreign object like a broom" unless he has some affirmative evidence that something like tha took place. That evidence is discoverable.
The defense is allowed to throw almost anything up against the wall and see if it sticks although there are some limits on defenses that I think are outrageous. The prosecution is most certainly NOT allowed to bring a case and make up wild theories about why they don't have DNA evidence or cross contamination that would would expect with what they are alledging.
Finally Michaels adopting the Nifong spin that something is wrong with aggressively defending ones self is another failure to understand the American criminal system. The attorneys are aggressively defending their clients because THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE PAID TO DO.
These change of venue articles are outrageously ignorant. This is a textbook case for a change in venue. The defendants might be convicted based on bias against them, bias against Duke University or pre-trial publicity. I can not imagine a better case for a change in venue.
All you have to do is look at Gottlieb's made-up four-months-after-the-fact 33-page "notes" to understand what Joyner is telling us about how Nifong is intending to operate. Expect more fabrications. So far, it doesn't look like any judge is willing to rein him in either.
mark
A records search of the N&O archives shows only ONE mention of the Platinum.
June 9, 2006 News & Observer, Filing disputes lacrosse probe, Joseph Neff, Anne Blythe Staff Writers Lead
When Durham police and prosecutors asked a judge for permission to collect photos and DNA from 46 Duke University lacrosse players, they said a woman had reported being beaten, choked and gang-raped at a team party. But defense lawyers said in a court filing Thursday that police ....
Two days before the party, Johnson said he drove the woman to an hourlong appointment at the Holiday Inn Express in Wakefield. At 11 p.m., Johnson said, he drove her to Platinum, a strip club in Hillsborough. The woman twice asked him to stay another hour, he wrote. At 4:30 a.m., Johnson said, he drove her to an hourlong job at the Millennium Hotel near Duke University.
* Why don't these reporters get off their duffs and do some REAL investigative journalism?
You can't turn over what has been destroyed or as the DPD would say never existed......
That was a good article. I'm glad someone at the school had the courage to speak up. Hope the rest don't take it out on him for breaking with the line as my son's grade-level principal had to leave for sticking up for my son. It was sad. He would have made a great administrator and was truly fond of the kids. Thanks for the ping.
"He earned one of the highest grades in a large, difficult and very competitive class."
Big deal. Crystal recently got an "A" in a really hard class too.
Except and when it's an election for District Attorney...
Voting activist urges student participation
http://www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2006/10/24/News/Voting.Activist.Urges.Student.Participation-2384787.shtml?norewrite200610241532&sourcedomain=www.dukechronicle.com
*snort*
Contrast Baldwin's comments with Cash's. Imagine a vaginal, oral, anal rape without physical evidence. How on God's green earth can a DA spin a case out of that?? The gang of 88 has some 'Splainin to do
There must be some connection there. That was a pretty obscure part of this entire saga.
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