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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Not a chance.
You're simply wrong. Duke administratiors are culpable up to their necks if this thing continues to disintegrate like it's been doing the last couple of days. They besmirched their own students WAY too soon, without benefit of even a HEARING, in obesience to the PC gods.
If I was the coach, or one of the students made public, before ANY trial, and this thing turns out to be Tawana Brawley, I'd OWN that university.
I guess they need to haul rodney king's sorry rear out there and give a "can't we all just get along" speech.
Not everyone who's lynched is innocent.
That she is a rape survivor is an assumption on your part. That claim is in issue here.
Sounds like the rest of his career is nicely matching the beginning!
Would you be comparing this young rape survivor to Tawana Brawley if she were white? If she were, perchance a white jogger in Central Park? And the accused black or Hispanic? Let the investigation take its course, then say what you want. But this is the kind of conjectural crap that gives some conservatives a bad name in certain circles.
duke did not falsely accuse anyone.
they cancelled the lacrosse season, they did not even kick the kids out of school except for the one kid who sent the email.
if duke accused these kids of rape, they would have kicked them out of school which they did not do.
I assume you gave the young lady a pelvic examination?
She apparently had NO DNA on her or about her from ANY of these people being slimed. Nor ANY indication she had even had sex recently. None At All. None. Zero. Zip. Nada.
Kristalnacht
I agree with you, however if the evidence of rape exists let's make sure we convict the real rapists, not the only ones the drunken girl can "remember" after 4 weeks.
Since there's no forensic evidence and it will be a she said/they said, her personal credibility Has to be questioned.
Excuse me? I happen to know something about Kristalnacht. And I find the comparison ludicrous and offensive.
Query: Now that I've screwed up, according to hard forensic evidence, what is the BEST course I can take to minimise the electoral damage next November (or whenever this particular b*st*rd is up for re-election)?
As you've noted so accurately, this moron's decision is likely to depend on whether he can manipulate voir dire to include 12 (or 6 or 9, whichever number is appropriate in the moron's jurisdiction) subfunctional alleged 'humans' on the jury.
D'ye know who OUGHT to weigh in on this one? Our good friend Congressman Billybob -- heck, it's HIS state!
Usually, the smart people do. The dullards go into government because they can't hack it privately.
They did not. The students admitted to having strippers at a party. That is grounds for firig the coach and kicking everyone off the team.
Oh, for God's sake. Race has NOTHING to do with this.
And, guess what -- you know it doesn't.
The SANE nurse said the injuries were "consistent with" sexual assault. They may also be consistent with something else.
You haven't seen the medical evidence. For all we know, whatever was noted by the nurse could be consistent with rough sex with her boyfriend or one of the "one-on-ones" she does in her escort business.
I listened carefully to the DA speaking in an interview where he discussed the medical evidence. He only used the term "swelling" in that interview.
You are assuming that the fact that she was raped is an established fact; we do not know that that is the case from what has been reported publicly.
regarding coaches
Of all the college coaches who have been fired this offseason for personal vices (as opposed to job-related vices, mainly losing) the only one who has garnered much sympathy is Washington football coach Rick Neuheisel. Unlike fired Iowa State basketball coach Larry Eustachy, Neuheisel did not regularly attend parties at the homes of students, who at were at first star-struck but later, as he lingered awkwardly into the wee hours of the morning hitting on young women, increasingly creeped out. And unlike recently fired Alabama coach Mike Price, Neuheisel was not accused of spending a night with a stripper who ran up $1,000 in room-service charges on his company credit card, and, according to the stripper, answering her midcoital cry of "Roll, Tide" with the rejoinder, "It's rolling baby, it's rolling!" Few of us shed tears for Eustachy or Price because few of us have found ourselves in these sorts of situations. (Although, in Price's defense, anybody who has seen a room-service menu would know that spending $1,000 is not as hard as it sounds.)
Neuheisel's crime, by contrast, seems rather prosaic. He took part in an NCAA tournament betting pool the past two years, albeit an unusually high-stakes one, in which he won about $12,000. NCAA coaches are expressly forbidden to wager on college sports, and, ergo, Neuheisel was fired. The punishment struck many people as manifestly unfair. After all, millions of Americans participate in NCAA tournament pools,
Explain the email.
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