Posted on 02/27/2007 9:43:42 AM PST by abb
02/27/07 -- DURHAM) - New motions have been filed in the Duke Lacrosse sex assault case.
Defense attorneys for Collin Finnery, Reade Seligmann and David Evans filed the 39-page motion at the Durham Courthouse Tuesday morning. In it defense attorneys for the three former Duke Lacrosse players say the prosecution is still holding out on potentially-explosive DNA evidence.
The DNA was taken in a rape kit the morning after the now-infamous lacrosse party on March 13, 2006 where the accuser says she was gang raped.
This new filing says they've not been given all the DNA evidence that excludes their clients but includes more unrelated male DNA.
Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong dropped rape charges against Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann and David Evans last December. All three defendants still face kidnapping and sexual offense charges.
Good point.
No one of any legal authority pays any attention to online petitions. They are too easily manipulated and can't be verified.
It is much too easy for people to "sign" multiple times using various, fictitious "names."
In other words, online petitions are a total waste of time and bandwidth for all concerned.
And physical petitions can't be manipulated????
Because its a political persecution - hence, he would be a good fit for Fitz's staff!
Physical petitions can be verified because name, address and phone number are usually included. The bogus entries can be excluded. That is not the case with online petitions that require only a "name" or email address. I, personally, have no less than six email addresses and can create an unlimited number of additional email addresses, if necessary.
For these kinds of polls that require only a name and if one is devious enough to want to vote muliple times then all that is necessary is to vote, leave the site, empty the temporary internet files folder, return to the site and vote again. :-)
Whoever the 'explosive DNA' belongs to, it will not likely ever be identified in this case as anything more than 'unidentified male'. It's not like all those likely suspects mentioned on this thread have their DNA profiles on file somewhere for ready reference.
All in all, it seems more and more likely to me, at least, that this case will just be dismissed sometime between now and the May hearing--probably just a week or so before the hearing is set to begin.
Actually, this petition did require an address ~ mailing as well as email.
A week before the hearing works for me.
Forgot to add: also wanted party affiliation (perhaps to check against voter records?)
What if a lot of the DNA happens to match members of the police force of Durham. All their DNA is on file. hmmm...it just might explain why nobody has seen the chief around this case.
She is a prostitue who is trying to take these rich white boys for all they have got and the PC culture the mainstream media is helping to reinforce her case. They say white priveledge, what a crock. There is a difference between racism and preference. Preference does not make you a racist.
I predict that nothing will happen to Nifong. There will be some motions about getting him in trouble, but as soon as a short-attention-span public forgets about him, nothing will happen to him and he will get away with a felony.
Otherwise the man-hating-spitting-and-clawing feminazis will raise a stink and all politicians will bow down and give in.
Hmmm................I wonder if there's a match to some person currently unknown to us, although I don't think a private lab would have that information...........unless they gave their results to SBI who ran it through the DNA profile database........
No longer will I refer to her as "Mangum", "Crystal", or "the accuser." Henceforth, it's "swampwoman."
I don't think even Nifong would have pursued this if there was the tiniest chance he could be named as one of her "johns", and further, Nifong's DNA profile would not be in any registry anywhere to compare and match with.
The only way that the DNA can be matched to a particular person is if that person's DNA profile is in the registry or they give a sample. The only way someone's DNA gets in the registry is through a criminal case against them. Unless the police chief and the mayor gave samples, which would be absurd since they aren't accused, it isn't them.
There has to be a nexus between the profiles found on her and a legally-obtained source against which it can be compared that the lab was asked to compare it with.
I agree to some extent, although I think it would be to the boys' advantage for this to come out whether the charges are being/had been dismissed.
It would have taken time for the defense to have a DNA expert examine the Jan. 10 report for completeness and to assist the defense with putting the shortfalls into a comprehensive motion. The delay in the dismissal, assuming there will be one, may turn out to be a silver lining.
I want the charges dismissed immediately, of course, but I also want the hearing to go forward because it can only help the boys in their civil suits against the county of Durham and DPD. There has been so much malfeasance, deceit and corruption in this case that more revelations about the prosecutorial and police misconduct all hearings just strengthen that perception as well as the hard evidence against Nifong and his DPD cohorts.
Where did you learn that all of the DPD officers' DNA is on file?
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