Posted on 04/11/2006 8:28:30 PM PDT by Asceticon
The Durham County district attorney said today that the woman who accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her at an off-campus party last month had identified at least one of them in a photo montage last week........... "There was no identification of any member of that lacrosse team until last week," the district attorney, Michael B. Nifong, said at an informational meeting today attended by more than 400 people at North Carolina Central University, where the woman was a student. He was answering a question about why no one has been arrested.
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Well, imagine what this dog and pony show has cost so far.
How much do you think Reverend Al's floor show on Sunday will cost?
And if she identified somebody, WHY ISN"T HE IN JAIL???????
Obviously you've missed the public lynching.
What ARE you smoking, good grief!
That speaks volumes.
You know, we talk a lot about the "dumbing down" of society, but we haven't, I think, made a strong enough point that people like DA's, investigators -- and, of course, legislators -- these days may also be horribly "dumbed down."
I think this DA will be Exhibit A. If, that is, Fitzgerald hasn't already been granted the title.
Is she now admitting that she made the first 911 call?
I'm convinced that if the DA doesn't charge somebody, that town is going to explode.
This DA (and the race pimps) have played this for all they can ring out of it.
You don't really suppose, do you, that the ''convict ante evidence'' crowd will in fact be persuaded, though?
One can hope...but in ''modern'' America, hope is generally hostage to PC BS.
You seem to have missed the entire basis of the legal system.
Good God, this country is getting dumb.
But if the prosecutor knows, or reasonably suspects that she has been coached, he is ethically required to treat her as a compromised witness, at best, and as a lieing witness at worst.
That's what she told the defense team investigators.
I would expect Nifong to be able to get an indictment out of a local grand jury with just the accuser's sworn statement, the results of the medical exam at Duke Hospital, and identification of three suspects by the accuser from photographs.
Odd you brought that up; just this afternoon I heard some people discussing the question of whether the DA's approach now, since he has dug himself such a whole, will be to roll the dice and just file the charges and put her on the stand, hoping the jury will buy her story and convict them without any evidence at all except her word.
coaches and players have been kicked off teams for a lot less than having strippers at a party.
The washington football coach got canned for placing a large 1000 dollar bet in a college basketball tournament pool.
Bob knight kicked players off his indiana teams for missing more than 3 classes.
A stripper at a party means duke can do whatever they want to these kids.
Yes. If Nifong has utterly no ethics and went into Law because he wanted to make money, he would have no compunction in filing such an indictment.
FGS, until Jim Hardin retired and our dumba$$ governor appointed him, this guy was over TRAFFIC COURT.
And you know what the VERY FIRST thing he did when he got in office was? Kick Freda Black out of her parking space, the space she had been given closest to the building because she tries all the murder and rape cases (until this one, of course) -- it was hers for safety, but he took it.
Keep in mind the prosecutor we are talking about is the same one who unethically gave 70 interviews to national and local media discussing evidence in the case while the investigation was still in progress and portraying the Duke students in the worst possible light.
I heard yesterday that it's virtually unheard of for a Durham GJ not to give the DA what he wants.
But I'm thinking if he really wants to drag this out until the primary, he can miss this Monday's GF and go for the one just AFTER the primary. Cool, huh?
And you know he wants to drag this out -- if not, why did he just send the DNA to another lab to be "confirmed?"
I understand that. But innocent until proven guilty doesn't mean innocent, and it doesn't get you out of a trial. There's clearly enough evidence to indict. Whether there's enough to convict neither you nor I know at this juncture, and it's irresponsible to speculate given the limited amount we know. I also think it's disgusting, again given the limited amount we know, to be hurling accusations at a rape survivor.
I really don't think money is his motive. He could have been making a lot more money in private practice rather than working in the district attorney's office for the last 30 years. I think this is about power, politics and fame.
This action is nothing, and it apparently has escaped your attention that being FALSELY accused of a felony JUST MIGHT BE more serious an event, AND JUST BLOODY MIGHT HAVE more serious long-term consequences.
Please note that I deliberately and against policy used capital letters in order to make the matter more easily comprehensible to you...because it's quite evident you haven't a clue.
FReegards, nonetheless.
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