I would like to see what the professors say today.
Letitia James in HOT WATER as Appeals Court Prepares to SHUT HER DOWN.
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Since Jesse Waters was the one who confronted Nifong and a couple of the professors, it would interesting if he and his staff tracked down Nifong and the professors who signed that ad, and ask them their thoughts on the woman who now admits to lying.
Steven Miller was as intelligent and eloquent then as he is now. Worth the time to listen to Steven Miller while he was a senior here at Duke.
I was on the Duke Campus and lived on the edge of campus during this entire period. The Litter Pickup sign near my house showed that that stretch of road was picked up by the Nifong Family. I often joked that I expected to see prisoners from the jail doing litter pickup.
This was a real black eye for Duke, and it cost them dearly, as it should have.
As for the professors who signed the newspaper narrative, nothing ever happened. I hope they learned from it, but I have doubts that ever happened.
I am a part of the Duke faculty community and this whole event and how it was handled is shameful.
Tidbit of history... Richard Nixon graduated from our law school and wanted to have his presidential library here. Duke turned him down.
Tour of Things That Didn't Happen In Durham
I am a three time Duke grad (B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.) receiving my last degree in 1984. I tell people that after I left Duke, Duke left me.
I lived nearby when all this happened. I was in the courtroom when DNA "expert" Brian Meehan testified that Nifong had instructed him to obscure the test result showing that the false accuser had the DNA of up to five men in or about her person and clothing. She had previously claimed that she had not been with any man prior to the non-rape. That was the turning point. Upon that admission, the entire courtroom let out an audible gasp.
A man identifying to me as being from the AP had apparently been parachuted in to report. He didn't have any idea what was going on and approached me to identify all the people in court.
I read his story the next day. He completely missed the lede. The false accuser had gone and gotten herself pregnant thinking that it would somehow bolster her rape accusation. Nifong agreed that her pregnancy had nothing to do with the case yet would not formally stipulate to that fact. The defense asked for and the judge ordered a DNA paternity test. The headline from the AP was "Paternity test ordered in Duke lacrosse rape case".
At a subsequent Duke alumni event, I confronted Brodhead and asked whether he had and regrets on his handling of the situation. Without uttering a word, he turned on his heel and walked away.
Wow, what a treat to see Stephen Miller when he was a campus journalist! Great post— thanks!
Nifong...I totally forgot about that POS.